Livebridge¶
by dpa•newslab
Millions of users read dpa-Live updates when a new US president is elected or an ongoing attack of unknown origin keeps the nation awake. We strive to deliver these updates live to whatever publishing system our customers chose. So we developed this open-source software as part of a project funded by the Google DNI Fund.
We’re already using it in production, delivering content produced using Sourcefabric’s Liveblog in the dpa newsroom to media customers who use the service of ScribbleLive.
Note
Livebridge requires Python >= 3.5
Features¶
- Keep content in-sync over different services.
- syndicate one source to various targets in realtime.
- CRUD - create, update, delete of resources over different services.
- extensible for all kinds of services with plugins
- Web-UI for controlling running bridges through a convenient web-frontend.
- Web-API for controlling running bridges.
- service credentials as environment vars.
- running bridges can be controlled without restarting the process.
- supported storage backends: MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle and others
- no storage backend needed for simple forwarding distribution of posts.
- await/async based, Python 3.5
- (non-persistent) queues for retrying the distribution of a post.
- focus on robustness and stability
Available Plugins¶
Following plugins are currently available:
- Liveblog livebridge-liveblog - Provides a Liveblog liveticker as source and target.
- Scribblelive livebridge-scribblelive - Provides a Scribblelive event stream as target. Provides also a converter from Liveblog to Scribblelive.
- Slack livebridge-slack - Provides Slack channels as source and as target. Also provides converters from Liveblog and to Scribblelive.
- Tickaroo livebridge-tickaroo - Provides a Tickaroo ticker as target.
