At Wehkamp we believe in enabling teams to automate their work. Lately we’ve been experimenting with GitHub’s Hubot project to build chat-bots for Slack. It has been quite a ride! What did we build? A lot! Bots took control of…
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…adapter const botName = settings?.name || “hubot” const botAlias = settings?.alias || null const robot = new Robot(“hubot-mock-adapter”, false, botName, botAlias) await robot.loadAdapter() robot.adapter.on(“connected”, () => { // create a user const user = robot.brain.userForId(“1”, { name: settings?.testUserName || “mocha”,…
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For our bot-zero project, we’ve decided to go all in on dev containers. What’s not to love? You can basically ship a development environment complete with node 22 and all the Visual Studio Code extensions we need. And if you…
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…const robot = new Robot(mockAdapter as any, false, botName, botAlias) robot.loadAdapter().then(() => { // create a user const user = robot.brain.userForId(“1”, { name: settings?.testUserName || “mocha”, room: “#mocha” }) const context = new TestBotContext(robot as unknown as Robot, user) done(context)…
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…we use it to alter the message, otherwise we let Hubot Grafana have the original message. Here is the code: import { Bot } from “hubot-grafana/src/Bot” function parseGrafanaSlugs(robot: Hubot.Robot) { if (!robot) throw “Argument ‘robot’ is empty.” const bot =…
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…on for while… We’ve mitigated this by checking if the sender of a certain message is a bot or not. Do you want to know more about our Hubot? Read Jump-starting Slack bot projects: bot-zero. Changelog 2022-08-18 😳 Many typos….
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…receive middleware that use the UpdatableMessage to inject a loading message: import { createUpdatableMessage } from “../common/UpdatableMessage” function rewriteGrafanaCommands(robot: Hubot.Robot) { if (!robot) throw “Argument ‘robot’ is empty.” robot.receiveMiddleware(async context => { const listeners = (<any>robot).listeners const listener = listeners.find(l…
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…npm uninstall hubot-diagnostics # [no] hablo espanol npm uninstall hubot-google-translate # uninstall Google maps npm uninstall hubot-maps # no images needed npm uninstall hubot-google-images # no Redis brain npm uninstall hubot-redis-brain # no Heroku npm uninstall hubot-heroku-keepalive # no pugs…
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…display_information: name: Eve description: Posts messages (or files) to Slack. background_color: “#000000” features: bot_user: display_name: Eve always_online: false oauth_config: scopes: bot: – channels:read – chat:write – chat:write.customize – files:read – files:write settings: org_deploy_enabled: false socket_mode_enabled: false token_rotation_enabled: false Manifests are…
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…micro-site with two the UA’s and discover the difference. UA_Chrome=”Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36″; UA_AdsBot=“AdsBot-Google (+http://www.google.com/adsbot.html)”; URL=”sea/C21/1AI/D01/?v=3.1&NavState=/_/N-1xv8Zmpk&kind=Regenlaars+(Dames)”; # Cloudflare visit “https://www.wehkamp.nl/$URL” “$UA_Chrome”; visit “https://www.wehkamp.nl/$URL” “$UA_AdsBot”; # main gateway visit “https://gateway.wehkamp.internal/$URL” “$UA_Chrome”; visit “https://gateway.wehkamp.internal/$URL”…
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