Many people have requested twitterfeed support for laconica/ identi.ca, especially now identi.ca has a twitter-compatible API. I have today set live a change that should enable you to do this:
When you create a new feed, or edit an existing one, there is a dropdown control at the top which can be set to “laconica”. If so, this feed then posts to laconica instead of twitter. If you want the same feed to post to both laconica and twitter, you will need to set up 2 separate feeds in twitterfeed to do that (I implemented it like this so the whole structure of the site and back-end didn’t need to change).
Please note that I have only tested laconica posting to the identi.ca server, so have currently no idea if posting to other laconi.ca installations works. My own laconica installation isn’t currently working, but when I get a change to update it and get it work, I may do some testing. If you do have a working, up-to-date laconica installation, you could try posting to it by updating the server and api values in the feed settings, and let me know how you get on! 
If your own laconica install is e.g. at http://laconica.yoursite.com, then enter “laconica.yoursite.com” in the Laconica server textbox, and leave the API path as “api”. If your laconica install is at http://yourserver.com/laconica, then enter “yourserver.com” in the Laconica server textbox, and “laconica/api” in the API path.
That’s the idea anyway – as I said, I have no idea if it will work, I only tested with the default identi.ca setting.
11 responses so far ↓
flashmat // August 1, 2008 at 2:53 pm |
Outstanding, Cheers Mario
Though you’ve just added a project to my ever-growing task list –
Personal laconica server + twitterfeed + XMPP = jabber notifications of important feeds, such as server status, and, erm, BOFH from theregister.co.uk
Evan Prodromou // August 4, 2008 at 1:13 am |
I’m so glad to hear this is working now!
dekor // August 9, 2008 at 10:24 pm |
Kinda nicely written actually.
Matt // August 23, 2008 at 10:08 pm |
This is a great addition to Twitterfeed. Laconica is an amazing project and this just helps add to it. Thank you!
Julian // September 1, 2008 at 9:07 am |
This is great – but could we please have a link to an aggregator – Ping.fm by choice.
This would mean that we could post to all of our sites at once!
Sebastian // September 18, 2008 at 7:20 pm |
This is pretty cool, thanks for that!
The laconica-feeds are still shown under “My Twitter Feeds” (not really a problem, but you could call that simply “My Feeds”) and link to “http://www.twitter.com/{laconica_name}”.
I would prefer if you could somehow indicate the type or name of service that’s used. How about showing the favicon of the respective services and the domain name in the title-element.
twitterfeed // September 18, 2008 at 9:43 pm |
Sebastian – thanks, very good points! The initial laconica implementation was a little rushed, since I was quite excited to get it working, but I’ll work on solving some the issues you mention in time for a future round of changes/updates.
BUGabundo // September 26, 2008 at 2:03 pm |
@mario can u fix a bug:
i’ve added a feed to identica, but it shows my nick as linked to twitter under “My Twitter Feeds”
BUGabundo // September 26, 2008 at 2:05 pm |
Actually, even the yellow bar says only Twitter
Twitter – RSS Feed URL – Frequency – Actions
twitterfeed // October 16, 2008 at 4:19 pm |
OK – these identi.ca/laconica issues should now be fixed. Let me know if you see any other problems related to this.
Lobotomia // November 8, 2008 at 8:10 pm |
i have changed my account in twitterfeed, from old to news, but twitterfeed continue to post on old account…