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# Matrix Viewer
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<a href="https://matrix.to/#/#matrix-viewer:matrix.org"><img src="https://img.shields.io/matrix/matrix-viewer:matrix.org.svg?label=%23matrix-viewer%3Amatrix.org&logo=matrix&server_fqdn=matrix.org" alt="Join the community and get support at #matrix-viewer:matrix.org" /></a>
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> **Note**
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> The Matrix Public Archive has been renamed to Matrix Viewer to better reflect what it
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> actually does and doesn't do. It's a viewer for world-readable Matrix rooms and
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> doesn't actually archive anything.
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In the vein of [feature parity with
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Gitter](https://github.com/vector-im/roadmap/issues/26), the goal is to make an
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accessible public site for `world_readable` Matrix rooms like Gitter's archives
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which search engines can index and keep all of the content accessible/available.
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#### Try it out: [view.matrix.org](https://view.matrix.org/) 🌌
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<!-- prettier-ignore -->
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Room directory homepage | Room view
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<img alt="A reference for how the Matrix Viewer homepage looks. Search bar where you can find thousands of rooms using Matrix and homeserver selector. Grid of room cards showing the results." src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/558581/236579462-fee0f9c0-29d2-4c3d-a695-c9eaf0f744ef.png" width="440"> | 
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## Demo videos
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The demo's refer to this project as the "Matrix Public Archive" which has now been renamed to "Matrix Viewer".
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- [ May 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KlNILNItGQ&t=1046s): Introducing [archive.matrix.org](https://archive.matrix.org/), the shiny new public instance of the Matrix Public Archive that everyone can share and link to.
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- [ Aug 2022](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KHQSeJTXm0&t=583s) ([blog post](https://matrix.org/blog/2022/08/05/this-week-in-matrix-2022-08-05#matrix-public-archive-website)): A quick intro of what the project looks like, the goals, what it accomplishes, and how it's a new portal into the Matrix ecosystem.
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- [ Oct 2022](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT6KSEqDUf8&t=548s): Showing off the room directory landing page used to browse everything available in the archive.
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## Technical overview
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We server-side render (SSR) the [Hydrogen](https://github.com/vector-im/hydrogen-web)
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Matrix client on a Node.js server (since both use JavaScript) and serve pages on the fly
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(with some Cloudflare caching on top) when someone requests
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`/r/matrixhq:matrix.org/${year}/${month}/${day}`. To fetch the events for a
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given day/time, we use [MSC3030](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3030)'s
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`/timestamp_to_event` endpoint to jump to a given day in the timeline and fetch the
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messages from a Matrix homeserver.
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Re-using Hydrogen gets us pretty and native(to Element) looking styles and keeps
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the maintenance burden of supporting more event types in Hydrogen.
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## FAQ
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See the [FAQ page](docs/faq.md).
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## Setup
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### Prerequisites
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- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) v18
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- We need v18 because it includes `fetch` by default. And [`node-fetch` doesn't
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support `abortSignal.reason`](https://github.com/node-fetch/node-fetch/issues/1462)
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yet.
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- We need v16 because it includes
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[`require('crypto').webcrypto.subtle`](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v16.x/api/webcrypto.html#cryptosubtle)
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for [Matrix encryption (olm) which can't be disabled in
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Hydrogen](https://github.com/vector-im/hydrogen-web/issues/579) yet. And
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[`abortSignal.reason` was introduced in
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v16.14.0](https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v18.x/docs/api/globals.html#abortsignalreason) (although we use `node-fetch` for now).
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- A Matrix homeserver that supports [MSC3030's](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3030) `/timestamp_to_event` endpoint
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- [Synapse](https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/synapse) 1.73.0+
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### Get the app running
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```sh
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$ npm install
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$ npm run build
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# Edit `config/config.user-overrides.json` so that `matrixServerUrl` points to
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# your homeserver and has `matrixAccessToken` defined
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$ cp config/config.default.json config/config.user-overrides.json
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$ npm run start
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```
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## Development
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```sh
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# Clone and install the `matrix-viewer` project
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$ git clone git@github.com:matrix-org/matrix-viewer.git
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$ cd matrix-viewer
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$ npm install
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# Edit `config/config.user-overrides.json` so that `matrixServerUrl` points to
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# your homeserver and has `matrixAccessToken` defined
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$ cp config/config.default.json config/config.user-overrides.json
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# This will watch for changes, rebuild bundles and restart the server
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$ npm run start-dev
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```
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If you want to make changes to the underlying Hydrogen SDK as well, you can locally link
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it into this project with the following instructions:
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```sh
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# We need to use a draft branch of Hydrogen to get the custom changes needed for
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# `matrix-viewer` to run. Hopefully soon, we can get all of the custom
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# changes mainlined so this isn't necessary.
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$ git clone git@github.com:vector-im/hydrogen-web.git
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$ cd hydrogen-web
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$ git checkout madlittlemods/matrix-public-archive-scratch-changes
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$ yarn install
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$ yarn build:sdk
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$ cd target/ && npm link && cd ..
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$ cd ..
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$ cd matrix-viewer
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$ npm link hydrogen-view-sdk
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```
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### Running tests
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See the [testing documentation](./docs/testing.md).
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### Tracing
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See the [tracing documentation](./docs/tracing.md).
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