tally-ho

A micropub speaking blog.

Although this allows some customisation, it isn't really being built in that manner. So please fork if you want to use for your own site, as I will probably change it completely when I get bored of how it works.

Usage

This is an almost all-in-one solution for running an "IndieWeb" blog. To get running you will need to:

1. Run go install hawx.me/code/tally-ho@latest, or clone this repo and run go build

2. Make a directory to put media files in (tally-ho will write files to this directory but will not serve them)

3. Create a config file, by default it looks for a file called config.toml

   me = "https://john.example.com/"
   
   # the URL tally-ho will be accessed from
   baseURL = "https://john.example.com"
   # the URL the media directory will be accessed from
   mediaURL = "https://media.john.example.com"
   
   [context]
   name = "John"
   author = "John Doe"
   copyright = "© 2025 John D. Doe."
   links = [
       { name = "posts", url = "/posts" },
       { name = "info", url = "/info" },
       { name = "etc", url = "/etc" },
   ]
   
   # each of these blocks can be left out if you don't want to use them
   [flickr]
   consumerKey = "..."
   consumerSecret = "..."
   # To get these values you can use the cmd/flickr-credentials tool which uses
   # this config file to perform the web authentorization flow.
   #
   #   $ go install hawx.me/code/tally-ho/cmd/flickr-credentials
   #   $ flickr-credentials -config $PATH_TO_CONFIG
   accessToken = "..."
   accessTokenSecret = "..."
   
   [github]
   clientID = "..."
   clientSecret = "..."
   # To get this value you can use the cmd/github-credentials tool which uses
   # this config file to perform the web authentorization flow.
   #
   #   $ go install hawx.me/code/tally-ho/cmd/github-credentials
   #   $ github-credentials -config $PATH_TO_CONFIG
   accessToken = "..."
   

4. Copy the ./web directory somewhere

Then you are ready to run it:

$ tally-ho
    --config $PATH_TO_CONFIG_FILE
    --web $PATH_TO_WEB_DIR
    --media-dir $PATH_TO_MEDIA_DIR
    --db ./db.sqlite

It will be listening on http://localhost:8080, this can be changed by passing --port or --socket. If run as a systemd service then it will detect a corresponding .socket definition.

To get webmentions for social media posts I recommend setting up https://brid.gy/, as tally-ho only allows syndicating to Flickr/GitHub and not gathering responses (yet).

See ./misc for examples of config files for nginx and systemd.

features

Possibly up-to-date feature list:

• IndieAuth:

  • Authentication in header
  • Authentication in body

• Config:

  • Get q options
  • Micropub q=config
  • Micropub q=media-endpoint
  • Micropub q=source
  • Micropub q=syndicate-to
  • Media q=last

• Posting:

  • Create with application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  • Create with application/json
  • Create with multipart/form-data
    • Store photo/audio/video as if they had been sent via the media endpoint
  • Update with application/json
    • Require update scope for requests
  • Upload to media endpoint
  • Delete
    • 410 Gone entry
    • Remove from listing
    • Remove from grouped likes
  • Undelete
  • mp-slug
  • post-status

• Syndication:

  • Flickr
    • Create
      • Photos
      • Videos
      • Likes
      • Replies
    • Retreive likes
    • Retrieve comments
  • GitHub
    • Likes
      • Repos
      • Issues
      • Comments
    • Create issue (in-reply-to repo)
    • Create comment (in-reply-to issue)
    • Retrieve reactions
    • Retrieve comments

• Webmentions:

  • Receive webmentions for posts
  • Send webmentions on create
  • Send webmentions on update
  • Send webmentions on delete
  • Send webmentions on undelete

• Display:

  • List:
    • All
    • Combine likes
    • Pagination
    • By kind
    • By category
  • Entry:
    • Notes
    • Posts
    • Photos
    • Videos
    • Likes
    • Replies
    • Bookmarks
    • RSVPs
    • Checkins (kinda)
    • Reposts
    • indiebookclub
    • teacup

• Feeds:

  • RSS
  • Atom
  • Jsonfeed (https://jsonfeed.org/)
  • WebSub
    • On create
    • On update
    • On delete
    • On undelete

Relevant specs:

• Micropub
• Webmention
• IndieAuth
• WebSub