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arfonzo
@arfonzo
[CASTBACK] This week in my spare time I've continued building castback, a /cli command line tool that backs up all of a user's farcaster casts, and enables searches. I built this because I found myself always trying to find *that old cast I made last month*. - Caches all casts from any FID to filesystem: no need to keep pulling data over API. Can easily update your backup with the most recent batch of casts only. - Searches and provides link to cast. - Uses @airstack.eth API, so users don't need a hub, just a free API key. (It took a while since we spoke first about it @betashop.eth but I did finally get around to building with the API, thanks!) I'll open source and release it once it's all done, but it's working well already! (Highly recommend checking airstack if you want to do farcaster dev quickly with minimal fuss! 🙏)
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eggman 🔵
@eggman.eth
God I love this I need a full fc client that runs in the terminal, and ascii-fys every image upload to boot 2000 $degen
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@jerry-d
I love this too, but images in ascii mode are just alphanumerics - you won’t be able to tell what the image was. Don’t get me wrong, this local backup idea is fantastic. I guess I have a question for @arfonzo - does the backup render the images in a window for viewing your backed up content?
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arfonzo
@arfonzo
Backup images: castback only grabs the cast and metadata, so no raw images. Raw images are actually hosted on external servers, not on the blockchain. castback will backup links to images used in your casts, so you can simply access the URLs to load the images. I prefer to render with ANSI blocks (rather than ASCII) and most terminals support 24-bit colour palette, here's an example of 100% text output in a terminal, 120 chars wide, and 240 chars wide.
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arfonzo
@arfonzo
Just to be clear though, castback will not view images. This comment was just a note about rendering images in terminal consoles generally--it's very possible, and generally mostly legible! We've come a long way from 80x25 terminal screens!
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Jerry-d 🍖👽🎩 ↑
@jerry-d
Got it, and that makes complete sense. Yes ANSI > ASCII for that purpose. Regarding what you were saying earlier: “I’m always trying to find that cast I made a month ago…” With your searchable results, when you find it, you (and those using your code) may want to quote cast that old cast. Could you devise a way to easily do this so the user could copy the URL and paste it into a cast they’re making? This could be super useful for at least some of the Farcaster community. 🫶🏽😄🎩 500 $DEGEN 100 $WILD 🎭
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