Tools to use with Diaspora

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If you're looking for information about how to add diaspora related functionality to your web site, you might want to look at the FAQ for web developers.

Browser Add-ons

Sharing extensions (instantly share on diaspora the page you're visiting)

More cool stuff (add ons to make your diaspora experience smarter)

  • Löwenzahn - (Firefox) This addon shows a notification when you get a new Diaspora message or notification.
  • Diaspora AutoUpdate - Greasemonkey script to automatically update the stream (like Twitter does in it's Webinterface). By Faldrian
  • Diaspora Translate - (Firefox with Greasemonkey, Chrome) GreaseMonkey script to translate posts in your stream, also offers hiding non-ssl images.
  • Diaspora* GIF Toggler - (Chrome) Stop animated gif in your stream and toggle by clicking.
  • dia.so - A profile shortener so people on other pods get you on their pod and A url shortener all pod admins can use.
  • Do It Later - (Firefox with Greasemonkey), a Greasemonkey script which enables you to schedule things to be posted whenever you like. By Deus Figendi.
  • Notification Titler - (Firefox with Greasemonkey), a Greasemonkey script which adds post titles to items in the notifications drop-down, so you can identify them. By Deus Figendi.
  • Diaspora Reshare Visualiser - A Javascript tool to display a flow chart of reshares of a particular post.
  • Markdown Pad - A popular Markdown editor for Windows Systems.
  • ReText - A simple but efficient Markdown and HTML editor for Linux Systems, including live preview.
  • Enki - A text editor with markdown support (incl. preview) for Linux, MacOSX and Windows. (Ubuntu- & Debian-Packages available)
  • Unicode Character Table - Not specific to Diaspora but a very hand for including Unicode like ★ ☂ ☯ ♫ ❤ in your diaspora posts.
  • Diaspora Reshare Graph - A data driven document implementation of the Diaspora Reshare Visualizer
  • Quote Post - Quotes a post instead of resharing, allows to add own text to the original post. By DeusFigendi
  • Tag Filter - allows to filter postings in the stream by tags, can replace all inline-images and iFrames (Videos) by a textlink or icon (or hides it total), helps to add tags you often use. By DeusFigendi

WordPress Plugins

Programmer Tools

  • Cliaspora - A command-line client for Diaspora*
  • Diaspy - Unofficial Python API for Diaspora

Gnu/Linux Command Line Voodoo

If you whant to change your Pod you may need a list of your contacts. This shell command may be usefull for you. Export your Data via "Settings - Account - Export Data - download my xml" and rename this file to d-exported-in.xml Then run this shell script:

grep 'diaspora_handle' d-exported-in.xml | cut -d '>' -f 2 | cut -d '<' -f 1 | sort | uniq | tee d-contacts-out.txt

you'll get the file "d-contacts-out.txt" wich is a list of all your contacts.