linklater: The fast and fun way to write Slack.com bots
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A library for writing https://slack.com/ Slack chat bots.
Tutorial: https://github.com/hlian/linklater/wiki/Tutorial
Features you could take advantage of right now, should you choose:
Uses
Textfor state-of-the-art Unicode support;Lovely documentation with no misspelllllings to be found;
Supports Slack's formatting syntax
Comes with a fast mode (
slashSimple) and a power mode (slash)A warm, receptive maintainer with beautiful brown eyes;
Fully Haddock'd methods and module;
Open source (BSD3).
Shamelessly cute example:
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Properties
| Versions | 1.0.0.0, 1.0.0.1, 1.0.0.2, 1.0.0.3, 2.0.0.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3, 3.1.0.0, 3.1.0.0, 3.2.0.0, 4.0.0.0, 4.0.0.1, 4.0.0.2 |
|---|---|
| Change log | changelog |
| Dependencies | aeson (>=0.8), base (<=4.7.0.1), base-prelude (>=0.1.16), bytestring (>=0.10.4.0), containers (>=0.5), http-types (>=0.8.5), text (>=1.1.1.3), wai (>=3.0.0.2), wreq (>=0.2) [details] |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Author | Hao Lian <me@haolian.org> |
| Maintainer | me@haolian.org |
| Category | Network |
| Home page | https://github.com/hlian/linklater |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/hlian/linklater/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/hlian/linklater |
| Uploaded | by hao at 2015-04-01T20:16:53Z |
Modules
[Index]
- Network
Flags
Manual Flags
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| developer | Disabled |
Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info
Downloads
- linklater-3.1.0.0.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (as included in the package)
Maintainer's Corner
Package maintainers
For package maintainers and hackage trustees
Readme for linklater-3.1.0.0
[back to package description]Who let you in here?
Relax! I'm here to make your life easier. Has your company ever switched to using Slack, and then you wanted to write silly Slack bots in Haskell as a way to learn Haskell?
Really?WowThat was a pretty specific question.
Uh, do you want to be friends? Well let's talk about it later, because right now I have an example for you. But you'll have to grab me first: If you don't have Haskell, it's quite easy: Windows, Mac, and Linux. jpgtobot is a slackbot that pastes the image at hi5bot lets you high-five people. There are other amazing things it can do too.
cabal sandbox init
cabal install linklater
Show me an example!
foo.jpg.to into chat. It even supports jpgto's flags: so -- r+gif will give you a GIF, randomly selected from all known images named foo. Thanks to the magic of -screen scraping-.Features
Text for state-of-the-art Unicode support;
slashSimple) and a power mode (slash)
Contributors
flip (+) foo -> (+ foo) trick;
See also