mobilizon-poster

A simple library to interact with joinmobilizon.org, you can clone it from https://github.com/vecna/mobilizon-poster.

It also works as a set of scripts to help a CLI interaction with mobilizon, but it is largely under-developed.

basic functions

To post an event you need to call a sequence of mobilizon APIs, for example: you need to authenticate, then to resolve the location of your event, then to create an event.

Mobilizon revolves around the concept of groups and this is not entrirely (if not at all) supported in this package.

Below it follow the sequence of actions given:

const login = require('@_vecna/mobilizon-poster').lib.login;

const username = "username";
const password = "password";
const api = "https://mobilizon-instance.xxx/api"; // note the api at the end

const token = await login.perform({ login: username, password, api });
const userInfo = await login.getInfo(token);

if you are using the script bin/login.js it would save this token into a file named .identities.json but if your code, you should depack userInfo and save the id because it is necessary when you post new events!

the userInfo depacked contains these fields:

"identities": [
  {
    "__typename": "Person",
    "avatar": {
      "__typename": "Media",
      "id": "2b494db8-9bbd-40bc-a88d-e3edc3f9495a",
      "url": "https://mobilizon.libr.events/media/3c9a553c4f789c64f25db8a03a8299f91479bac1050e7e2c2cd4c99f97313a71.png?name=Screenshot%20from%202022-08-12%2013-35-10.png"
    },
    "id": "4",
    "name": "[email protected]",
    "preferredUsername": "ManyExes",
    "type": "PERSON"
  }

After you have the token and the id, you can post the events:

const createEvent = require('@_vecna/mobilizon-poster').lib.createEvent;
const location = require('@_vecna/mobilizon-poster').lib.location;

const eventvars = {
  start: new Date(), // the object need to have a valid .toISOString() method
  end: new Date(),   // this can be null, and
  title: "Event title!",
  description: "A description that should also contains\n\nnewlines",
  url: "https://your.event.promotion.or.anything.else",
  address: "A string that would be queried soon!",
};

eventvars.location = await location.queryLocation(
  eventvars.address, localString=null, apiEndpoint
);

/* for authorization */
eventvars.token = token;
eventvars.organizerActorId = userInfo.identities[0].id;

eventvars.tags = [ "a list of tags" ]; // by default it says "unofficial"

const results = await createEvent.postToMobilizon(eventvars);

if you print eventvars.location you'll find an OpenStreetMap object like this, when the string is "Berlin, c-base":

lib:location Fetched 1 possible locations, the first is: +0ms
lib:location {
lib:location   __typename: 'Address',
lib:location   country: 'Germany',
lib:location   description: 'c-base',
lib:location   geom: '13.4201313;52.5129735',
lib:location   id: null,
lib:location   locality: 'Berlin',
lib:location   originId: 'nominatim:260050809',
lib:location   postalCode: '10179',
lib:location   region: null,
lib:location   street: '20 Rungestraße',
lib:location   type: 'house',
lib:location   url: null
lib:location } +0ms

Inside of the results variable you should find also url, the link at the event just generated.

P.S: execute this codes with DEBUG=* would enable a verbose I/O reporting.

Why has been developed

• This tool enable a mobilizon user to post in their account.
• Read here for usage tips and documentation.
• become a usable third party tool, available as npm package.

Executables

The simplest example is:

$ bin/login.js --login username@mail --password xxxyyyzzz --api https://mobilizon.libr.events/api

This create a file named .identities.json.

$ bin/poster.js --start 2022-08-03 --end 2022-08-03 --title "TEST-ignore-me" --description "a description" --url "https://an.url.of.the.event" --address "berlin, c-base" --api https://mobilizon.libr.events/api

bin/poster

this is the tool that post events in mobilizon

bin/postEvent

this is the tool to create an Event on a mobilizon instance using a json file as input. Usage: node bin/postEvent.js /absolute/path/to/jile.json As json keys are expected:

{
  "start": "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm",
  "end": null or "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm",
  "title": "$string",
  "description": "$string",
  "address": "$string",
  "url": "$url",
  "picture": {
    "media_id": "$idFromUploader.sh"
  },
  "organizer_id": "$id",
  "attributed_to_id": "$id"
}

bin/deleter

this delete an event previously submit by 'poster'

bin/ical

this tool read from an ical event and call 'poster' as many time as events found

bin/login

this is the tool that perform access to mobilizon server and save the authentication token, so the other tools can use it. Usage: node bin/login.js --login=$login --password=$password

bin/group-list

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renamer (not yet implemented)

This tool rename a group, so it should be used when a "— unofficial" group become renamed.

uploader (not yet implemented)

A picture should be uploaded separately and then linked to the event. It is a task that require a dedicated tool.

Configuration variables / example

all of these command needs a apiUrl variable, or an --api option in the command line to specify a mobilizon server

Location resolved

node bin/location.js --address "Moritzplatz, Berlin, Germany"

Event Poster

node bin/poster.js --start "2021-05-09 10:22" --end "2021-05-09 11:22" --title "Test event new structure" --description "blah blah" --url "nothing" --address "Moritzplatz, Berlin, Germany"

Libraries

createEvent.postToMobilizon
event.fetchLastFourEvents
groups.groupList
location.location
location.queryLocation
login.perform
login.getInfo
shared.integrityChecks
shared.mobilizonHTTPAPIfetch
shared.fetchVariables
shared.getToken
upload.uploadToMobilizon