You may or may not be aware of the excellent anti-spam service provided by Mollom, founded by two friends and colleagues, Dries Buytaert and Benjamin Schrauwen. Mollom provides an API to program against, allowing support libraries to be written in a variety of languages and for numerous platforms. Top-notch examples are the Drupal plugin (obviously 
and the WordPress plugin. Next to that there are a number of libraries for Java, PHP5, Ruby, Python, etc. Sadly, a Haskell library was lacking.
Given that I enjoy programming in Haskell and need to sharpen my Haskell-fu, I set out to write a library for interfacing with the Mollom API. The library is far from finished, but it is functional at this point, so if you have Mollom keys, you can call the services and fight the spam war on your Haskell driven website.
I maintain two repositories where you can get the library:
- At Hackage: hMollom
- At github: hMollom.git
At this point the library has been given version 0.1. So it is still lacking quite a lot of features. Stuff that is on the immediate TODO list:
- Add fault handling
- Add server list refreshing
- Encapsulate the state in a monad
Any feedback is appreciated.
Tags: haskell, mollom, programming