MPInstantViewMiddleware: A middleware for EFB

Notice

Middleware ID: catbaron.mp_instantview

The middleware ID was catbaron.mp_instanceview before version 0.3.0. Please take care of it, especially please remeber to update the configure file of EFB ($HOME/.ehforwarderbot/profiles/default/config.yaml).

MPInstantViewMiddleware is a middleware of EFB enable instant view for articles of official accounts.

How it works

This middleware generates a telegraph page for links sent by official accounts of wechat, which will enable the instant view. Thus you need an access_token (introduced below).

Dependense

• Python >= 3.6
• EFB >= 2.0.0
• PyYaml
• bs4
• requests[sock]

Install and configuration

Install

pip install efb-mp-instantview-middleware

Enable

Register to EFB Following this document to edit the config file. The config file by default is $HOME/.ehforwarderbot/profiles/default. It should look like:

master_channel: foo.demo_master
slave_channels:
- foo.demo_slave
- bar.dummy
middlewares:
- foo.other_middlewares
- catbaron.mp_instantview

You only need to add the last line to your config file.

Configure the middleware

The config file by default is $HOME/.ehforwarderbot/profiles/default/catbaron.mp_instantview/config.yaml. Please create the config file if there is not one. You need to have a telegraph token and save it here. You can get a token following the document. The access_token is what you need.

This middleware need access to https://telegra.ph, add the proxy url to the configure file if necessary.

# Token of telegraph
telegraph_token: ACCESS_TOKEN

# Optional. Proxy url.
# Example:
#  proxy_url: socks5://<user>:<pass>@<host>:<port>
#  proxy_url: socks5://<host>:<port>
#  proxy_url: http://<host>:<port>
proxy_url: PROXY_URL

Restart EFB.