Related projects

This page provides a list of apps and libraries that support the Tent protocol so far, plus other helpful, Tent-related information.

Tent Installation Guides

• Install on your own server
  • http://jcook.cc/2012/12/tent-guide-1/
• Deploy to Heroku:
  • http://tenti.co/
  • http://essayist.mndj.me/rcs.tent.is/essay/4rxdag
• Deploy to AppFog: http://arturovm.me/post/deploying-a-tent-server-on-appfog-a-guide.html

Client apps

Web

• TentStatus (open source) powers the Tent.is web interface and can be installed standalone, supporting status posts (microblogging)
• Zelten (open source) by Benjamin Eberlei supports a multi-post-type timeline and bookmark sharing
• Essayist (open source) by Mwanji Ezana supports long-form writing
• Bivou.ac by Jonathan Foucher supports status posts (microblogging) and is optimized for mobile. Not open source

iOS

• Bivy by [Bivy.me] (https://bivyme.tent.is/) available in App Store now
• Tentr (App Store) by Marco Ferreira
• In private alpha (?): Campr iPhone App, by [Campr] (https://campr.tent.is/)

Android

• tentmonstar by Sean McArthur, now in the Play Store

Desktop

• Mac OS X, Linux: Bungloo by ^jeena.net
• Mac OS X: CocoaTentClient by Dustin Rue
• In planned development: 1984 by ^citizenweb.is and ^jcook.cc. Client will be developed for Linux then ported to Mac OS X / Windows at a later date.

Command-line interface

• clint by ^elimisteve, written in Ruby
• Sleeping Bag, a WIP command line tent client by Jack Stouffer
• Tentog, trying to be irssi-like. Written in Python using python-tent-client. By [^dindinoh] (https://dindinoh.tent.is)
• tent-cli by ^openmason, in node.js

Plugins

• WordPress plugin to display public posts by ^brooks
• Syte supports Tent.io integration, thanks to Marc Henklein

Apps for exchanging content with other services

• Zelten SocialSync can crosspost directly to Twitter, code here
• TentRSS presents an RSS feed of public status posts, code here. See also: Fork that can filter out ^mentions, Tent to Twitter IFTTT recipe using the fork

Tools and Utilities

• tent-discover - a CORS-enabled web service allowing server-less Tent applications to discover Entity information. By ^mkr

Protocol libraries

• Cocoa Touch: TPTentClient by ^followben
• Go: go.tent by ^elimisteve
• Java: tent-client-java by ^mwanji, TentClient by ^alex
• JavaScript: node-tent-client, tentjs by ^zatnosk
• PHP: TentPHP by ^beberlei, php-tent-client by ^collegeman, Depot (opensource) by ^simensen
• Python: python-tent-client by ^longears
• Ruby: tent-client-ruby (official)

Server implementations

• tentd is the reference implementation of a Tent server, written in Ruby
• tentd-admin (official) – This project includes tentd, so start here if you want to host your own server. Provides the admin interface for approving and revoking apps.
• EC2pedition - Amazon AWS EC2 images for tent.io servers, clients and developers ^rootwyrm - support at [^ec2pedition] (https://ec2pedition.tent.is)
• In early development: pytentd, a python server implementation by a group of students.
• In planned development: 1984-srv by ^citizenweb.is and ^jcook.cc
• Depot (opensource) - a PHP server implementation ^simensen.tent.is

Search engines / spiders

• Skate Tent Search, run by Apollic Software (the team behind Tent.is and the protocol), lets you search Tent posts.
• Tentagon by ^fracolo provides user search, currently only for accounts on Tent.is

Live servers

Currently only Tent.is and [Campr] (http://campr.me/) provide Tent hosting for the general public. The ^otherservers account attempts to follow all known self-hosted servers. [Lavvus] (http://lavv.us/) promises to offer entity hosting in the near future.

General info

Tent URL Scheme - tent://

Anyone who wants to participate in the scheme definition is welcome to on this wiki-page. Doc here

Tips

• How to configure Apache to issue Link headers pointing at your Tent

• Catalog of actual JSON objects from the tent.is API, useful for figuring things out, checking against the docs, understanding how things work

• You should be able to use any website you control as your Tent entity name. Put a <link> tag in it as specified in the docs. Here is a test case that doesn't work yet on tent.is, but should: http://longearstestaccount.tumblr.com/ To fully support that tent.is would have to let us change the "entity" field in our profile.

• If you can control the response headers of your website, you can use a Link header instead of the <link> tag. The effect is the same.

• A condensed, non-official description of the discovery protocol, step by step

• pavilli.us: a beginners guide to the tent protocol with helpful links