In a nutshell, URL Catcher is an irssi plugin that watches channels for URLs and then stores them in a database.

The irssi script is written in perl and makes use of DBI to connect to a database of choice (I'm using MySQL).

Settings are stored in an XML file and read in by XML::Simple.

The web UI is written in PHP and VERY much a work in progress.

Come look at the source and ticket tracker at http://dev.urlcatcher.org/

The TODO list (this might be a little long as the ideas keep coming in (mostlty from no_pants):

• Pagination for Raw Data page.Sort of done - raw data is now displayed 1 day at a time.
• Propper modulasiation
• User login
• Tags - added by logged in users
• When recording an URL, fetch the target's title (if there is one) - how should this work for multipul URLs on one line?
• Fetch a copy of images when URL has the extension jpg/jpeg/png/gif/bmp/svg
• With YouTube URLs, fetch a copy of the image displayed before the video is played
• Fetch a copy of pdf and flash files?
• Work flow for copyrighted material to be removed upon request
• Correct the order nicks (and other fields) are listed in the raw filter
• Set up SVN repo.
• Get other people interested and involved :)

If you are interested in running the code yourself or would like to help code on this project, please contact me