openify

What is openify?

openify helps you parse and act on public data feeds.

It was put together rather quickly, over the course of a few rushed weekend hours and sweaty summer nights.

What does it do?

• Parses the news page from the OpenSSL project, and extracts security advisories
• Parses the security feed from ArsTechnica, and extracts articles
• Saves these news items to the "links" collection in MongoDB

Why do I need openify?

• Be the first to know when the next Heartbleed hits. Get advance warning from openify, so you can patch your servers before the world goes crazy and melts down.
• Then get notified when Ars Technica writes about it a few days later. Sit back, relax, sip your coffee, and smile. Your data is safe!

What's remaining to be done?

• Add mechanism to act on these feeds, and send notifications to your mobile device (via Pushover), or email
• Add additional input sources (the openssl git log's RSS feed would be cool)
• Part of the code for Pushover notifications is written - it just needs to be hooked into the right place
• Allow arbitrary recipients to be defined (via a config file or database entries)
• Decide whether all of this code should be moved to a full framework (Symfony / Silex / Laravel)

Design philosophy:

• Use ready-made, re-usable open source components, for non-core functionality (see composer.json)
• Use PHP 5 object-oriented goodness, including namespaces and auto-loading
• Keep classes and methods short and sweet (single responsibility principle)
• Strive to make classes loosely coupled and interchangeable
• Allow an arbitrary number input sources and output processors to be defined

Requirements:

• PHP 5.4 or higher
• composer
• MongoDB
• A curious mind, good sense of humor, or both (*)

Installation:

To install, please run:

composer install

Operation:

To run, please run:

php run.php openssl

or

php run.php ars

Where's my data?

Make sure the Mongo daemon (mongod) is running locally Connect to mongo, select openify database, search links collection.

mongo
use openify
db.links.find()

• Optional, but highly recommended :)

License:

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/