socket_notify.rb

Send highlights and private message to a unix socket

Usage

Installing

Place the script at ~/.weechat/ruby/socket_notify.rb and symlink into ~/.weechat/ruby/autoload if you want it to load on startup.

Then load it in weechat by running:

/script load socket_notify.rb

Reading Notifications

On my macbook I turn these notifications into OS X Notification Center messages by using the terminal-notifier app that I installed (with homebrew) by running:

brew install terminal-notifier

Then I read and react to these notifications with the follow bash functions:

function irc-notification {
  TYPE=$1
  MSG=$2

  terminal-notifier \
    -title IRC \
    -subtitle "$TYPE" \
    -message "$MSG" \
    -appIcon ~/share/weechat.png \
    -contentImage ~/share/weechat.png \
    -execute "/usr/local/bin/tmux select-window -t 0:IRC" \
    -activate com.apple.Terminal \
    -sound default \
    -group IRC
}

function get-irc-notifications {
  ssh remote.host.net 'nc -k -l -U /tmp/weechat.notify.sock' | \
    while read type message; do
      irc-notification "$(echo -n $type | base64 -D -)" "$(echo -n $message | base64 -D -)"
    done
}

Details

Whenever weechat gets a private message or a highlight this script will write a short description and the message to the /tmp/weechat.notify.socket unix socket if it exists. If the socket doesn't exist or isn't currently listening then this script does nothing.

The message written is in the form:

<Base64 Description> <Base64 Message>

I chose to do this since it made reading the message with bash scripts really easy. You can read one line at a time from the socket and split on space to get both items. Please let me know if there are any other good uses for this that you come up with!