jomiel 1.0.0

Meta inquiry middleware for distributed systems

jomiel

jomiel is the meta inquiry middleware for distributed systems. It returns data about content on video-sharing websites (e.g. YouTube).

Two core technologies serve as a basis for jomiel:

• Protocol Buffers for platform-independent data serialization
• ZeroMQ as the messaging library

The client applications can be written in modern languages for most platforms.

jomiel is a spiritual successor to (now defunct) libquvi.

Features

• Language and platform neutral messaging using Protocol Buffers and ZeroMQ

• A plugin architecture for extending video-sharing website support

• Authentication and encryption (CURVE and SSH)

• Runs fully as a service

• Highly configurable

Getting started

• jomiel requires Python 3.6+

To install from PyPI:

pip install jomiel

To run from the repository:

git clone https://github.com/guendto/jomiel.git
cd jomiel
pip install -e .

Once you have jomiel running, you can try sending inquiries with:

• examples - the demo programs written in most modern languages
• yomiel - the pretty printer for jomiel messages

Be sure to check out the HOWTO, also.

Website coverage

To view the list of the supported video-sharing websites, type:

jomiel --plugin-list

The website coverage is still very limited.

• Additional support can be added by writing new plugins
• The plugin architechture is implemented in Python
• Python is a fun and easy language to learn

See the src/jomiel/plugin/ directory for the existing plugins.

When you are contributing new plugins

• Make sure the website is not dedicated to copyright infringement (be that they host the media or the link to it)

• Make sure the website is not NSFW

License

jomiel is licensed under the Apache License version 2.0.

Acknowledgements

jomiel uses pre-commit and its many hooks to lint and format the project files. See the .pre-commit-config.yaml file for details.