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doc: rewrite documentation in manual pages, closes #1674 Get rid of markdown documentation and the custom generator tools, instead use raw manual pages.
author David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr>
date Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:15:57 +0200
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.Dd @IRCCD_MAN_DATE@
.Dt IRCCD-PLUGIN-LINKS 7
.Os
.\" NAME
.Sh NAME
.Nm links
.Nd irccd links plugin
.\" DESCRIPTION
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
is used to analyze links sent on channels. It will load the web page and extract
its title on the same channel.
.\" INSTALLATION
.Sh INSTALLATION
The plugin
.Nm
is distributed with irccd. To enable it add the following to your plugins
section:
.Pp
.Bd -literal
[plugins]
links = ""
.Ed
.\" USAGE
.Sh USAGE
The plugin will automatically fetch web page titles on message that contains
either http://something or https://something.
.Pp
Example of possible output:
.Bd -literal -offset Ds
markand: http://example.org
irccd: Example Domain
.Ed
.\" CONFIGURATION
.Sh CONFIGURATION
The following options are available under the
.Va [plugin.links]
section:
.Bl -tag -width 14n -offset Ds
.It Va timeout No (int)
Timeout in seconds before dropping a request (default: 30).
.El
.\" TEMPLATES
.Sh TEMPLATES
The
.Nm
plugin supports the following templates in
.Va [templates.links]
section:
.Bl -tag -width 14n -offset Ds
.It Va info
Message to be written when title has been retrieved successfully. Keywords:
.Em channel , nickname , origin , server , title .
.El
.\" BUGS
.Sh BUGS
As HTML pages are not always correct and not openable with a XML parser,
.Nm
actually searches for a <title></title> tag using a regular expression. While
this is not ideal, it usually works in most situations.
.Pp
Only a few set of HTML entity characters are converted to the human readable
format.
.\" SEE ALSO
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr irccd 1 ,
.Xr irccd-templates 7