We are happy to add this two new API routes to our already existing routes.

New API Routes: online users

A new API route has been added to the arsenal. The ability to get all of the current chat sessions. You can now access the complete list of chatters and viewers of a given room using the API. For more information visit the current  online users route.

Enhance API Routes: System Message

The old API route: send system message has now been upgraded to feature an [optional] username and an [optional] image variables. This change allows the API user to send a system message that will look like it was sent by an actual user in the chat room. For more information visit the system message route.

That’s it for now. Stay tuned for more updates!
And if you have any questions, suggestions, or feature requests in the meantime, please feel free to get in touch here.

What is RumbleTalk RESTful API?

For those who are new. The RumbleTalk API let you fully manage your group chats from your service. Control, configure and design your own group chats without the need to enter the RumbleTalk administration panel.

With this RESTful API you’ll be able to do the following:

Manage your chat rooms
Design your chat rooms
Manage your users and administrators
Ban and revoke bans of IP addresses
Read your chat messages
Send system messages to your chat rooms
And more!
Start by getting your key and secret. Detailed information on how to get them can be found in our authentication page.

After having received all sorts of great feedback and recommendations from many of our users, we’re pleased to announce these exciting new updates and features in RumbleTalk.

Spam Filter for Usernames

We know that keeping their chat room clean is a necessity to our users. That’s why we developed the “forbidden words list”.

Anytime someone tries to type a word from that list, their message is blocked, and they get a warning that they used an offensive word that is not allowed.

We’ve now extended this feature to apply to usernames as well.

Now, when a user tries to enter the chat with a username that contains an offensive word, from the forbidden words list, they will be blocked from entering the room altogether.

No More Admin Flooding

As a measure of security to prevent groups of users from spamming the chat, when they start typing too fast, they are kicked out of the chat with a message stating: “you are typing too fast“.

However, this had the downside of also removing the chat administrators when they were typing too many messages too quickly.

Now, administrators flooding has been canceled, and administrators will no longer be affected by this unique security measure.

Users Can Chat with Administrators

As you probably know, there are two settings for private chats: either users can start chats with each other, or only administrators can start chats with everyone.

But while administrators had the ability to initiate and engage in a private chat with other users when this was selected, users could not start chats with the administrators themselves.

Now, when you select the “Administrator only” setting, we have enhanced the setting for users to be able to initiate private chats with the administrators as well.

If you have any question you can contact us in here.

Chat security is a hot topic right now. Scammers and hackers often manage to get information from what users thought was a secure chat room. So, what really makes a chat secure? And does RumbleTalk have what it takes?

RumbleTalk Ensures a Secure Chat Room

Unlike many conventional chat services, RumbleTalk places high stock in secure chatting. We accomplish this in three ways:

• The first “layer” of security is that RumbleTalk encrypts every bit of communication with SSL.

This is the same type of encryption and safekeeping that stores use to protect credit card info when making payments online. Not only online merchants, but also, banks and governments rely on this technology in order to keep information safe.

• The second measure to keep chats secure is that the chats are kept entirely separate from one another.

More often than not, online chats aren’t set up that way. While you might only see the content from your chat, others are usually closely connected in the back-end. This allows easy access to hackers and scammers. RumbleTalk keeps each chat stored separately in order to avoid this.

• The third and most variable layer of security is controlling the user base.

With RumbleTalk, you can manage this one yourself via login control. You can set up pre-defined users, admins, moderators, and secure URLs. Moreover, users can create password protected rooms or public chats depending on the need.
Advance users (developers) will be able to use the RumbleTalk REST API to integrate their users base so their users will not need to login to the chat room. Go to https://dev.rumbletalk.com for more API information.

Customization and Personalization Is Key

It’s clear that different users have different needs and requirements when it comes to security. The use and purpose of a chat will really dictate the level of security needed. For example, a public chat open to everyone will have completely different requirements from a closed event video stream. This is, again, different from an internal company chat. There is an infinite set of possibilities and requirements, which can only be met with customization.

Fortunately, RumbleTalk has this in spades. Various measures help to provide the right amount of security needed, including:

• Black and white lists for IPs to restrict access from unwanted persons
• Typing to fast – spammers prevention.
• Spam filter – word blacklist
• The option to set up predefined users and share the login details with the chat participants
• Keeping a log of who does and says what in the chat, which makes monitoring even easier
• You can set up admin and moderator users to oversee the chats in real time

So if a secure chat room is one of the things you’re after with your online chat, rest assured, RumbleTalk has you covered. Check out the live demo here.