@hackage linklater3.2.0.0

The fast and fun way to write Slack.com bots

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:

  • cabal sandbox init
  • cabal install linklater

If you don't have Haskell, it's quite easy: Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Show me an example!

  • jpgtobot is a slackbot that pastes the image at 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-.

    jpgtobot in action

  • hi5bot lets you high-five people. There are other amazing things it can do too.

Features

  • Uses Text for state-of-the-art Unicode support;
  • Lovely documentation with no misspelllllings to be found;
  • Supports [Slack's formatting syntax](https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting 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).

Contributors

  • Hao Lian, author;
  • Ulysses Popple; and
  • Ian Henry, who showed me the flip (+) foo -> (+ foo) trick;
  • Shields (the Grizzly Bear album), which I listened all the way through for the first time while I was writing this ★★★★.

See also

  • tightrope, a library Ian should really document