Save chat information between users?

agarcia17

Is it possible to record the chat conversations between the users?

a_5mith

@agarcia17 said:

Is it possible to record the chat conversations between the users?

Not currently, no.

agarcia17

would it be possible to develop a plugin that can do such thing?

a_5mith

@agarcia17 said:

would it be possible to develop a plugin that can do such thing?

I'm not sure. They're saved in Redis/MongoDB, so I don't see why not. Would require one of the @Developers to confirm though.

agarcia17

@a_5mith ok thank you

psychobunny

Not sure if I get what you mean. Record as in save a history in the ACP for the admin to troll over? In any case I imagine it should be as easy as adding an action hook into the chat method and going from there

agarcia17

@psychobunny yeah and maybe record some statistics like how many times user1 has messaged user2. I'm new to NodeBB but I would love to implement it into one of my programs as I think it would be a great fit. Do you mind elaborating a bit more on how I would go about adding an action hook into the chat method?

psychobunny

Seems like there's already a hook

filter:messaging.save

found at https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/851d5c0f32981ffed5ad55cb2f3cc4e5a1cef8cb/src/messaging.js#L37

Your plugin would just have to listen to that hook. The message object contains fromuid, touid, timestamp, and content, pretty much everything you'd need to write a decent enough analytics plugin

EDIT: we have a plugin contest coming up soon, perhaps you'd want to register and try your luck

agarcia17

@psychobunny thank you!!

agarcia17

@psychobunny I can't seem to get it working, do you mind helping me a bit? I followed this tutorial and got the library.js file to print out "hello, world!" as soon as the plugin is loaded. But after I try adding the "filter:messaging.save" hook into the plugin.json file, "hello, world!" never gets printed. Here are my library.js and plugin.json files:

plugin.json
{
"id": "nodebb-plugin-test",
"name": "NodeBB Messaging Stats Plugin",
"description": "NodeBB testing Plugin",
"url": "https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-youtube",
"library": "./library.js",
"hooks": { "hook": "filter:messaging.save", "method": "myMethod"}
}

library.js
var MyPlugin = {

myMethod: function(message, next) {
	//do something with message here
	console.log('***************hello, world!*****************');
}

};

any help will be appreciated, thanks..!

psychobunny

Does the chat still work as normal?

EDIT: is that the full library.js file? You're missing the module.exports = MyPlugin line at the bottom

agarcia17

@psychobunny Thanks! that's what I was missing. It's working now
for anybody interested, here's how my files look now:

plugin.json

{
	"id": "nodebb-plugin-youtube",
	"name": "NodeBB YouTube Plugin",
	"description": "NodeBB Plugin that allows users to embed YouTube videos inline in their posts.",
	"url": "https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-youtube",
	"library": "./library.js",
	"hooks": [
		{ "hook": "filter:messaging.save", "method": "myMethod", "callbacked": true, "priority": 6 }
	]
}

library.js

(function(module) {
	"use strict";

	var myPlugin = {};
	myPlugin.myMethod = function(message, callback) {
		console.log(message.content);

		callback(null, message);
	};

	module.exports = myPlugin;
}(module));

@psychobunny I'll look into that plugin contest even though, I'm extremely new to NodeBB and only have basic JavaScript skills!

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This would make for an interesting plugin. While I dont agree with admins browsing user chats, sometimes it can be necessary to settle disputes.

agarcia17

@Ted yeah, and also the way I'm using the chat is not necessarily for casual conversations; statistics/logs from chat are needed