thanks.
It is working

On Sunday, 10 July 2016 12:25:52 UTC+8, Jacob Quinn wrote:
>
> Just sent it to you.
>
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Lyndon White <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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