There’s an useful guide for building the plugin here, but I found that some lose ends still needed to be patched up.

For one, the plugin apparently hasn’t been updated in a while, so some function calls still reference old irssi structures and functions. Naturally, these don’t compile with irssi 0.8.15, which is the latest version as of this writing. For those issues, I compiled a patch with various fixes here. This isn’t exactly a perfect fix, but should do in most cases. (The name is still 0.8.14 as that is the version it was originally written for, but it still applies cleanly for 0.8.15)

ac_python_devel.m4 can be downloaded from various sources, for example from this project. pyconstants.c is supposed to be generated with awk -f src/constants.awk src/constants.txt > src/pyconstants.c.

There is one more catch that isn’t mentioned in above guide: The plugin tries to load irssi_startup.py on startup, which will have to be on a specific path to be found. Without any parameters to ./configure, that will be /usr/local/share/irssi/scripts. So, if you’d rather have it in /usr/share/irssi/scripts (this is where my distribution places scripts, at least), you have to explicitly specify this when calling ./configure:

./configure --with-irssi=<path to irssi sources> \
    --datadir=/usr/share

After that, make should (hopefully) work and libpython.so will be placed in src/.libs/. This file should be moved to irssi’s module directory, which should be /usr/lib/irssi/modules or /usr/local/lib/irssi/modules, depending on distribution. Copy irssi_startup.py and irssi.py from src/ to the data directory you specified above, and irssi should be able to load the Python plugin without problems via /load python.

Screenshot

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4chan Backwash for Opera, Version 1.2c

Installation instructions

See installation instructions here.

Changelog

01/22/2009 – Version 1.0a. Tested and working with Opera 9.6. Fixed a serious bug with scrolling to the wrong position when clicking a quote.

01/23/2009 – Version 1.1. Now works with fychan by sneakily re-attaching event listeners when the document was modified.

01/27/2009 – Version 1.2. Now also shows quotes pointing to the thread starter.

01/28/2009 – Version 1.2a. Somewhat fixed quirky display for posts quoting the thread starter.

02/01/2009 – Version 1.2b. Minor changes to prevent functions and variables from leaking outside of Backwash’s namespace.

01/09/2010 – Version 1.2c. Should work for the new URL layout now.

Sample settings (based on real-life /a/)

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4chan Filter for Opera, Version 1.3a

Installation instructions

Set up an userscript directory for Opera. This option can be accessed using Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Content -> JavaScript Options. After you’ve selected a directory, simply drop the .js file there and the script should load automatically.

Things to note

• All values are interpreted as regular expressions, meaning that some special characters will not work as expected when entered. Those are, for example, .+^$?*[]{}(). Such characters should be escaped with backslash unless you actually know what you’re doing.
• Since Opera doesn’t provide a way to store variables over a period of time, this script uses cookies to save settings. This means that a) if you disabled cookies nothing will work and b) if you set up Opera to delete new cookies on exit, all your settings will be gone the next time you start your browser.

Changelog

01/21/2009 – Version 1.0. Tested and working with Opera 9.6. Reports indicate it also works with Opera 10.

01/22/2009 – Version 1.1.

• Added toggle to sticky or unsticky control panel
• Fixed mouseover/mouseout for control panel
• All strings are precompiled to RegExps
• Added apply and reset buttons

02/01/2009 – Version 1.2. Improved support for fychan. Still some rough edges though. The post counter isn’t corrected after expanding a thread, and the `Reset page’ button destroys fychan. Nothing to be done about the latter since fychan always executes after this script.

02/02/2009 – Version 1.2a. Fixed new settings not taking effect unless the page was reloaded.

01/09/2010 – Version 1.3a. Updated some code which I don’t remember the significance of, and changed URL layout to conform to 4chan’s new URL scheme.

Win32 Comix Starter (obsolete, only works for Python 2.5)

Update: MComix, a fork of Comix, has superior Windows integration and comes with an installer that automatically generates an executable wrapper.

dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper /path/to/file 7

The integer after the file path is the tiling mode, and mapped one-to-one to the choices in the KDE wallpaper selection dialog, meaning that the following options are available:

1. Centered
2. Tiled
3. Centered Tiled
4. Centered Maxpect
5. Maxpect Tiled
6. Scaled
7. Centered Autofit
8. Scale & Crop

It adds some more advanced functionality like buttons to delete/report posts without having to go to the bottom of the page. With the current version it is also possible to `hide’ threads, a feature from the 4chan extension for Firefox that is sorely missed by Opera users.

Download: 4chan.js, 02/06/09

Has to be placed into your Opera UserJS directory, which can be set up under Preferences > Advanced > Content > JavaScript Options.

Full list of features

• Kills any iframes (you know who you are)
• Also kills any <embed> tags to prevent, for example, background sound caused by Flash objects.
• `Fixes’ quoting, that is, the comment box now properly advances to a new line after clicking on a post id. Also note that you can CTRL-click post ids to prevent the window from jumping up to the comment box.
• Adds buttons to delete, report and hide posts/threads.
• Also adds noko and sage boxes next to the e-Mail text control.

Notes on compatibility with fychan.js

The buttons to delete, report and hide posts do not work with fychan. Might or might not work on a fix for this in the future.

PS: No AniDB API calls. Just HTTP fetch and some regexps.

Current: AniDBSearch 2.2

Changelog:

• 2.2
  • Updated AniDB regexps.
  • Added official Japanese title to output. Be sure to set server encoding to UTF-8, this isn’t 1990 anymore!
  • When more than one anime matches the search string, AniDBSearch now prints the first few results instead of just the actual search URL.
  • Added message throttling to avoid being flooded off during above operation.
  • No longer uses threaded HTTP fetch on win32. This means that the client will become unresponsive for a while after each command. It also means that the script might now actually work on win32. After some poking around I’m no longer sure it ever did. If anyone manages to fit threads and the X-Chat Python plugin – especially xchat.command – together, be sure to let me know.
  • Various other, minor cleanups.
• 2.1.4
  • Fixed wrong results when disabling command or trigger (disabling the trigger actually disabled the command and vice versa)
  • Fixed printing in the wrong context (Thanks to protospork for pointing it out, I never noticed)
• 2.1.3
  • Fixed crash due to invalid arguments to /anidb
  • Fixed exception in connection handler
• 2.1.2
  • Updated AniDB URL and regexps
• 2.1.1:
  • Added /anidb -b to open AniDB URL in browser
  • Added /anidb -p to output the URL to the current channel instead of privmsg.
    This can be considered a workaround to using .anidb yourself (see below)
  • Disabled “Your Message” hook on win32 – locks up X-Chat
  • Fixes for backward compatibility to Python 2.4
• 2.1.0:
  • Completely rewritten previous code

The new version can be downloaded here: MPCinfo 1.3.1

There used to be C++ sources for the .pyd file and some instructions included in the archive, but I unfortunately lost the source and the original archive, so you’ll have to make do with just the essentials.

[ TwoPoints] MPC: [Eclipse] Itadaki no Hecatetan – 01 (h264) [81CA68B4].mkv : [00:00/08:04 min (stopped)] : Size: 64.59 mb

The script itself is using mpcinfo.dll by Gabest and requires Python 2.5 (I believe X-Chat versions >= 2.6.8 are linked against 2.5, so you should be all set if you use a moderately recent version). Since mpcinfo.dll was intended for mIRC use, the exported functions are defined according to mIRC DLL standards, so most of the work in this plugin actually was to wrap the functions to somwhat use them in Python. Maybe I’ll try and recompile the DLL to a native X-Chat plugin one day, who knows.

Unfortunately I can no longer provide the old version since my provider lost it due to a hardware crash and I do not have the files anymore.

Prerequisites: Install Apache and Python

• Accquire and compile SVN snapshot of mod_python
• Install resulting Python package
• LoadModule python_module modules/mod_python.so in httpd.conf

I was stuck for hours because of this simple problem: mod_python.so is dependant on python24.dll (or any other version, depending on what version of Python mod_python was linked against during compile time), and Apache will report “Cannot find module” instead of “Cannot load dependency” or something if this DLL cannot be found.
This is where adding PathToPython to the global PATH enviroment variable comes into play. If you add it to the local PATH variable instead of the global one, you’ll need to start the Apache service under your Windows account name. (Duh, if I was into masochism I’d bump my head against a wall endlessly for wasting my time like this)