nitter

Nitter

Description

The gathio role installs and configures Nitter, an open source Twitter frontend. It also installs a script to update Nitter periodically.

This role configures the application only; it does not configure a reverse proxy.

Variables

This role accepts the following variables:

Variable	Default	Description
nitter_version	master	Git version to install
nitter_server_name	{{ ansible_fqdn }}	Canonical HTTP hostname
nitter_port	8080	Local listening port
nitter_update_on_calendar	weekly	Systemd calendar interval for updating Nitter
nitter_hmac_key		Random key for cryptographic signing of video URLs
nitter_max_connections	100	Maximum number of HTTP connections
nitter_token_count	10	Minimum number of API tokens
nitter_cache_list_minutes	240	List cache duration (minutes)
nitter_cache_rss_minutes	10	RSS cache duration (minutes)
nitter_redis_port	6379	Port for local redis instance
nitter_redis_connections	20	Redis connection pool size
nitter_redis_max_connections	30	Maximum number of open redis connections

This role exports the following variables:

Variable	Description
nitter_apache_config	Apache config block to configure a reverse proxy

Usage

Example playbook:

- name: configure nitter web application
  hosts: nitter_servers
  roles:
    - role: nitter
      vars:
        nitter_server_name: nitter.example.com
        nitter_hmac_key: s3cret

    - role: apache_vhost
      apache_server_name: '{{ nitter_server_name }}'
      apache_server_aliases: []
      apache_config: '{{ nitter_apache_config }}'