This integrations service is used to enable an external search engine (Giphy) to be queried based on commands issued in a Mattermost channel using Mattermost outgoing webhooks.

Once installed, users can type gif: keyword to send a query to the Giphy search engine and return with a post containing one non-deterministic search result from the Giphy database of animated GIF files matching keyword. The animation will appear below in the posted message.

Powered by Giphy.

To run this integration you need:

1. A web server supporting Python 3.6. Previous versions of this fork required 2.7.
2. A Mattermost account where outgoing webhooks are enabled

Many web server options will work, below we provide instructions for Heroku and a general Linux/Ubuntu server.

The following procedure shows how to install this project on a Linux web server running Ubuntu 18.04. The following instructions work behind a firewall so long as the web server has access to your Mattermost instances.

sudo apt install python3-pip python3-dev build-essential -y
sudo git clone https://github.com/dwaynepryce/mattermost-integration-giphy.git /opt/mattermost-integration-giphy
sudo chown -R mattermost:mattermost /opt/mattermost-integration-giphy
cd /opt/mattermost-integration-giphy
sudo su mattermost
python3 -m pip install virtualenv
python3 -m virtualenv -ppython3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-frozen.txt
python setup.py install

1. Log in to your Mattermost account. Click the three dot menu at the top of the left-hand side and go to Integrations > Slash Commands
2. Under Add a new command, enter gif into Command Trigger Word
3. Paste your Web Server domain into Callback URLs, making sure to add http:// to the beginning and /new_post to the end so it looks similar to http://<your-web-server-domain>:<MATTERMOST_GIPHY_PORT>/new_post and click Add
4. Select POST method
5. (optional) Choose a username and icon url (more details here)
6. (optional) Check the autocomplete checkbox, add [KEYWORD] as the hint, Returns a GIF from Giphy based on the keyword as the description and Get a GIF from Giphy as the descriptive label
7. Copy the Token from your newly created slash command that appears under the Existing commands section

Edit env.sh and put the Token from the Mattermost configuration in MATTERMOST_GIPHY_TOKEN.

sudo cp /opt/mattermost-integration-giphy/mattermost-integration-giphy.service /lib/systemd/system/mattermost-integration-giphy.service
sudo systemctl enable mattermost-integration-giphy.service
sudo systemctl start mattermost-integration-giphy.service

That's it! You should be able to type gif: hello or /gif hello into any channel and see a GIF from Giphy's translate service