Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist is a free software media gallery built with Sinatra.

See it in action: zeitgeist.li.

This is work in progress, come and join the fun!

Current Features

• Upload image files -or-
• Submit URLs to remote images and videos
• Remote plugins:
  • Image hoster URLs are detected and parsed for the image: abload, flickr, fukung, imagenetz, imageshack, imgur, picpaste, twitpic, twitter, xkcd, yfrog (easily extendable)
  • Video and Audio URLs are also detected for the following sites: YouTube, Vimeo, Soundcloud (this also parses and stores thumbnails along with title and tags)
• Items (images, audio and videos) can be tagged and autotagged by url patterns aswell
• User registration and authentication
• Registered users can delete items they submitted
• The pHash (perceptual hash) library (and phashion ruby bindings) is used to detect duplicate submissions and is able to detect similar images that are reencoded or slightly manipulated.
• API: a simple HTTP API can be used to access zeitgeist (documented here)
• IRC: a rubybot plugin allows to access zeitgeist in many ways:
  • auto-submit urls posted in channels
  • multi-user authentication
  • query item information like parsed title and tags
  • tag, delete (own) items through the IRC interface
• Android: the app is currently in development, but the current features are:
  • Endless scrolling through the gallery
  • View images directly and use the YouTube app to watch videos
  • Modify item taggings, including an autocompletion for tags
  • Share photos from your gallery or make a snapshot and upload it directly from the app
  • Authenticate with your zeitgeist account easily using a qrcode shown on the /api_secret page. (this uses the zxing barcode scanner)
  • Delete your own photos from the gallery

Development

• Use rvm or similar to install ruby 2.0.0
• git clone https://github.com/jessor/zeitgeist.git zeitgeist/
• cd zeitgeist/
• gem install bundler
• bundle install Install requirements, this step requires some system libraries.
• cp config.yaml.sample config.yaml
• ruby zeitgeist.rb Or use shotgun, thin, or similar.

Acknowledgements

• Form Icons: Dat Nguyen, Iconfinder
• Clock, Audio Icon: Alexandre Moore, Iconfinder
• Header Ribbon: Damion Yeatman, Forrst

Licence

Zeitgeist is licensed under the GPLv2+. Please drop me a line if you use or modify it :)