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 Text for 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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Network
- Network.Linklater

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linklater-3.2.0.0.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
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Versions [RSS]	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, 3.2.0.0, 4.0.0.0, 4.0.0.1, 4.0.0.2
Change log	changelog
Dependencies	aeson, base (<4.9), base-prelude, bytestring, containers, http-types, text, wai, wreq [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 2015-07-21T18:05:30Z
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Status	Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2015-07-21 [all 1 reports]

Readme for linklater-3.2.0.0

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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?^{Wow^{That 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-.
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 ★★★★.