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# JabberCard
JabberCard (formerly FASI) is a "fancy and sleek invitation" system with
addeitional features. https://schapps.woodpeckersnest.eu/jabbercard/
> Your Online Jabber Identity
## Project page
gemini://woodpeckersnest.space/~schapps/jabbercard.gmi
https://schapps.woodpeckersnest.eu/jabbercard/
## About
JabberCard is an HTML invite page for XMPP.
The main purpose, is to provide an interface to share XMPP contacts via HTML
browsers.
It also provides an interface to explore XMPP server conferences, pubsub and
other services.
JabberCard (previously YOJI, and formerly FASI) is a "fancy and sleek invitation"
system with additional features.
### Reasons for creating JabberCard
It is primarily an HTML invitation page for XMPP, which allows to present XMPP profiles as
fancy HTML pages.
The main reasons for the realization of JabberCard are to:
The main purpose, is to provide an interface to share and link to XMPP contacts
and group chats via HTML browsers.
- Add interactive capabilities, as well as vCard information;
- Create rapport with the viewers, by displaying vCard information, such as Full
Name and Description or Note;
- Realize the beautiful simplicity of XMPP, so that more people would be
motivated to utilize, install, serve, and develop XMPP software;
- Charm our "normie" friends, so called, by displaying an attractive contact
HTML page, which they can also utilize;
- Utilize an invitation page, with XMPP capabilities, regardless to the software
that powers an XMPP server;
- Realize that HTTP is obsolete and should be treated as an optional publishing
mean, because anything that HTTP offers, is already possible with XMPP, since
a couple of decades ago.
- Extend support for Gopher and Gemini, which do not allow scripts, and,
therefore, a server-side is essential for these ASCII type mediums.
It also provides interfaces to view conference messages and PubSub posts, and
to explore XMPP servers, PubSub nodes and other services and entities.
## Motives for creating JabberCard
The main motives for the realization of JabberCard are to:
* Create rapport with the viewers;
> By displaying vCard information, such as Full Name and Description or Note;
* Charm our "normie" friends, so called;
> By displaying an attractive contact HTML page, which they can also utilize;
* Utilize an invitation page with dynamic XMPP capabilities;
> Regardless to the software that powers an XMPP server;
* Realize the beautiful simplicity of XMPP;
> Exposing the uniform structure of XMPP would cause to people to be motivated
> to utilize, install, serve, and develop XMPP software;
* Realize that HTTP is obsolete and should be treated as an optional publishing mean;
> Because anything that HTTP offers, is already possible with XMPP, since a
> couple of decades ago.
* Extend support for Gopher and Gemini;
> Gopher and Gemini do not allow scripts, and, therefore, a server-side is
> essential for these type of mediums.
## Features
The vatious features of JabberCard.
### Special features
- Fetch vCards and photos;
- Indicate of available conferences, nodes and services;
- Retrieve number of conferences, nodes, participants, node items and services;
- Preview recent conference messages;
- View journal articles (i.e. PubSub node items that are published as Atom Over
XMPP).
* Fetch vCards and photos;
* Indicate of available conferences, nodes and services;
* Retrieve number of conferences, nodes, participants, node items and services;
* Preview recent conference messages;
* View PubSub journal articles, that are published as Atom Over XMPP.
### Extended features
- Browse services;
- Explore JID and node items.
* Browse services;
* Explore JID and node items.
### Other features
- Customization for specific brands (e.g. Conversations, Cheogram, monocles chat
and yaxim);
- Dark mode;
- Dynamic background in accordance to the photo colors.
* Dark mode;
* Dynamic background in accordance to the photo colors;
* Further customization for specific brands.
### Supported XMPP features
* MUC
* Photo
* PubSub
* QR code
* Service Discovery
* vCard
### Supported XEP specifications
* XEP-0030: Service Discovery
* XEP-0045: Multi-User Chat
* XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe
* XEP-0277: Journaling Over XMPP
* XEP-0292: vCard4 Over XMPP
* XEP-0472: PubSub Social Feed
## Technicalities
JabberCard is written in Python and utilizes Jinja2, FastAPI and Slixmpp.
JabberCard is written in Python and utilizes Jinja2, FastAPI and Slixmpp, and it
only requires an XMPP account to work.
JabberCard requires an XMPP account to work, it only needs an XMPP server.
## Target clients
## Supported features
JabberCard is offered for free, and it was made due to urgency and necessity
(reasons not to be disclosed in public), and is intended to anyone who is
deploying XMPP services.
- MUC
- Photo
- PubSub
- QR code
- Service Discovery
- vCard
* aTalk
* blabber.im
* Conversations
* Cheogram
* Dino
* Draugr.de
* GoodBytes
* Ignite Realtime
* Isode
* Kaidan
* monocles chat
* Moxxy
* Openfire
* ProcessOne
* Tigase
* WPN
* yaxim
* ... and any branded XMPP service.
## Supported XEP specifications
## Movim
- XEP-0030: Service Discovery
- XEP-0045: Multi-User Chat
- XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe
- XEP-0292: vCard4 Over XMPP
If you have a [Movim](https://movim.eu) instance, then you probably do not need
JabberCard.
## Installation
It is possible to install JabberCard using pip and pipx.
#### pip inside venv
### pip inside venv
```
$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
```
##### Install
#### Install
```
$ pip install git+https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/JabberCard
```
#### pipx
### pipx
##### Install
#### Install
```
$ pipx install git+https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/JabberCard
```
##### Update
#### Update
```
$ pipx reinstall jabbercard
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$ pipx install git+https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/JabberCard
```
### Configure
Copy file `settings.toml` to `~/.config/jabbercard/`.
Copy directories `css`, `img`, and `template` to `~/.local/share/jabbercard/`.
Copy files `clients.toml`, and `systems.toml` to `~/.local/share/jabbercard/`.
### Start
```