Just sent it to you. On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Lyndon White <oxina...@ucc.asn.au> wrote:
> > Hi all, > We were discussing this in the gitter chat > <https://gitter.im/JuliaLang/julia/>. > That it would be cool if everytime someone asked a Julia question on Stack > Overflow, it would appear in the Activity sidebar. > > > *They way, when questions are asked on stackoverflow, people hanging > around on gitter would see it, and could answer it.Thus making the > community more welcoming by people who are stuck getting help sooner,and so > improving the adoption of the language.* > > > So I threw together some code to make that happen: > https://github.com/oxinabox/GitterBots.jl > You can see it in action on my own gitter channel: > https://gitter.im/oxinabox/JuliaStackOverflowWatcher > > <http://i.stack.imgur.com/WG7OL.png> > > > Its just a script running in a loop on my computer, > each minute it checks the stackover flow JuliaLang RSS feed, > and then posts them to a Gitter Custom Integration activity notifier. > > I would like to set it up to run in the main channel. > The Activity bar in the main channel is currently empty -- unused. > > I'm happy to host it, more or less forever, on the same server I use to > host the bot that links the IRC to gitter > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/ImKYzqHXA90> > But unlike that bot, I can not do this without permission form a channel > admin. > Which by default for gitter are people with commit access to the Julia > repository. > > I need a channel admin to give me a webhook URL. > > This can be gotten by clicking: > Room Settings -> Integrations -> *Custom* > Then copying the URL (It should look like > *https://webhooks.gitter.im/e/adb87a00ca31a22272dc > <https://webhooks.gitter.im/e/adb87a00ca31a22272dc>*) and clicking done. > and sending it to me in an private message on gitter > or an email (though that is unencripted plain text, so could I guess be > snooped. Certainly not be sending to this mailing list as that would leave > it open for anyone to hook to) > > Alternatively, the repo for the bot that checks stack overflow could be > cloned by a channel admin, and then they could run it themselves. > And so I wouldn't need to be given the webhook URL. > > > What do people think? > People who were on gitter at the time I brought it up, and showed the > demonstration were in favor, I think. > > Regards > Lyndon White > > > >
