Installing Raindrop on Mac OS X

I’m really excited about Mozilla Raindrop; it have many cool features and technologies behind it. If you don’t know what Raindrop is, take a look at Introducing Raindrop.

This is a very short how-to showing how to install Raindrop on a machine running Mac OS X; a more complete guide can be found on Mozilla Wiki.

First, download and install CouchDBX. Then create a file called ~/.raindrop containing something like this:

[account-gmail-username]
proto=imap
kind=gmail
username=username@gmail.com
password=topsecret
ssl=True

[account-twitter-username]
proto=twitter
kind=twitter
username=username
password=topsecret

Finally, install Raindrop and it’s dependencies:

$ sudo port install mercurial
$ sudo easy_install-2.6 -U Skype4Py python-twitter feedparser paisley simplejson
$ hg clone -r 0.1 http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/raindrop
$ cd raindrop
$ ./server/python/check-raindrop.py
$ ./server/python/run-raindrop.py sync-messages --max-age=2days --folder=inbox

After the “run-raindrop.py” command finishes you can access http://127.0.0.1:5984/raindrop/inflow/index.html to see the Raindrop web interface.

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