irclogs2

irclogs2 is a web-based IRC log viewer.

History

Many years ago, in Feburary 2006, I started publically logging some IRC channels I was on to the web. As part of this, I started writing a PHP script to make viewing said logs slightly nicer than just raw plaintext files. This PHP script worked quite succesfully, and had a number of frequent users.

Unfortunately, development of that PHP script kind of stopped, and over the following years, I made some unsuccesful attempts to write a new version of these logs. SpBotII ended up a failure (probably due to me concentrating on the cool bits first, before actually taking care to write something that worked and did what it needed to).

Now in early Feburary 2008, I finally managed to succesfully re-start my development of Python web code (by writing qmsk.web), and I quickly started work on a replacement for the origional now-three-years-old PHP logs. Born was irclogs2.

Features

The new irclogs2 supports everything that the old PHP irclogs did, but is better in every way.

Supports logs stored in the default Irssi theme, one file per day
Multiple channels
Per-user preferences, stored as cookies, or given as query string arguments in the URL
Per-user timezone preference, with full support for said timezones in all date-time handling
Efficient retrieval of the latest N log lines for a given channel
HTML calendar for browsing logs by date
Indexed fulltext search using Hyper Estraier
Flexible pagination for log viewer and search results
Timezone-agnostic links to specific log lines
Configureable formatter/font/date-time format etc.
Support for rendering displayed lines as HTML, plaintext, PNG, RSS
Pretty URLS :)
Valid, visually uncluttered XHTML/CSS design using Mako templates
Works as a WSGI application

Support

If you have questions about this project, please don't hesitate to contact me.

There is also a issue tracker available at the project Trac.

Development

The web code is based on qmsk.web. Mercurial repository is available at http://hg.qmsk.net/irclogs2, project Trac at http://projects.qmsk.net/irclogs2/trac.