We have a bunch of scenarios where we would like to monitor the output of other integrations (like jenkins build notifications) and it looks like out of the box limbo is filtering those out from ever reaching the plugins. I can understand scenarios where this might not be desirable, maybe it could be a config option?

As suggested by @jsmecham

It crached when a new user joined.
http://pastebin.com/peNPM7M8

you should be able to have slask auto-post tweets from a list of users. Probably ought to have options to post all tweets and/or tweets that aren't @ mentions

I've been getting this error occasionally with the bot crashing after a couple of days:

Any reason why or how to fix this?

Sparked by: this commit

The usual cause for an issue like #33 is that the environment variable either hasn't been set or hasn't been exported.

Handle the token KeyError better, and inform the user of what they can do to try and fix it.

(Possibly point them to filing a new issue on this repo?)

The server will die if you cause a plugin to send a very long response. Slack docs say:

Clients should limit messages sent to channels to 4000 characters, which will always be under 16k bytes even with a message comprised solely of non-BMP Unicode characters at 4 bytes each.

For instance if we have a !ping -c5 github.com trigger you'd expect the output of the command to be returned line by line instead of waiting for the cmd to exit and then return all the output

Similar to @g2graman's implementation here: master...g2graman:master, we should allow an on_meta handler. We also need an on_init, and an on_loop.

The README is huge and unwieldy ATM. Find a better place and method to document plugins.

It should be easier to deactivate and reactivate plugins, and I should bless only some important plugins as default plugins

On a basic installation I have many modules which do not work with some of the default plugins.

Example : !youtube madonna

Server logs :

myserver limbo # ./bin/limbo --pluginpath limbo/plugins/
2016-03-01 14:15:34,498:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.youtube.com
2016-03-01 14:15:34,817:WARNING:limbo.limbo:Failed to run plugin <function on_message at 0x7f053e893f50>, module not loaded
2016-03-01 14:15:34,817:WARNING:limbo.limbo:<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
2016-03-01 14:15:34,820:WARNING:limbo.limbo:Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/limbo-3.8.0-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 103, in run_hook
    h = hook(*args)
  File "limbo/plugins/youtube.py", line 30, in on_message
    return youtube(searchterm.encode("utf8"))
  File "limbo/plugins/youtube.py", line 15, in youtube
    r = requests.get(url)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 65, in get
    return request('get', url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 49, in request
    response = session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 461, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 573, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 370, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 544, in urlopen
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 344, in _make_request
    self._raise_timeout(err=e, url=url, timeout_value=conn.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 314, in _raise_timeout
    if 'timed out' in str(err) or 'did not complete (read)' in str(err):  # Python 2.6
TypeError: __str__ returned non-string (type Error)

Here's what I get when I try to run what's in the Procfile on slask. The same thing happens when I push all the code to Heroku. Any help debugging this would be appreciated!

$ gunicorn slask:app
plugin: plugins/calc.py
attaching calc.<function on_message at 0x107084488> to message
plugin: plugins/emoji.py
attaching emoji.<function on_message at 0x1070f3668> to message
plugin: plugins/emojicodedict.py
plugin: plugins/flip.py
attaching flip.<function on_message at 0x1070f3758> to message
plugin: plugins/genesis.py
attaching genesis.<function on_message at 0x1070f3848> to message
plugin: plugins/gif.py
attaching gif.<function on_message at 0x1070f3938> to message
plugin: plugins/google.py
attaching google.<function on_message at 0x1070f3aa0> to message
plugin: plugins/help.py
attaching help.<function on_message at 0x1070f3b90> to message
plugin: plugins/image.py
attaching image.<function on_message at 0x1070f3cf8> to message
plugin: plugins/map.py
attaching map.<function on_message at 0x1070f3e60> to message
plugin: plugins/stock.py
attaching stock.<function on_message at 0x10710d050> to message
plugin: plugins/stockphoto.py
attaching stockphoto.<function on_message at 0x10710d140> to message
plugin: plugins/weather.py
attaching weather.<function on_message at 0x10710d230> to message
plugin: plugins/wiki.py
attaching wiki.<function on_message at 0x10710d320> to message
plugin: plugins/youtube.py
attaching youtube.<function on_message at 0x10710d488> to message
Failed to find application: 'slask'

What good is a bot if you can't talk to it!?

As discussed in #45 we determined how to figure out if a channel was a DM or a in a group/channel

I propose that we write a plugin that when a person mentions the bot in a group or channel, it defaults to a cleverbot plugin utilising this little library. (Only if no other response is being sent)

If it's in a DM, we default to that plugin if no response is being sent.

With that being said... it does make it a bit more difficult if group DMs have a similar ID to one-on-one DMs.... Group DMs you'd want to handle the same as groups

urllib.quote doesn't handle unicode strings, so all uses of it need to encode the string. See uilab-github@8071510 for examples.

Sorry if this is on my end but I'm not sure why this is failing.
The make run command is failing with a KeyError: 'token' error. My ~/.bashrc file has the export line setup correctly I believe. That being said, after running make install limbo runs just fine ;)

Adding beautifulsoup4 4.3.2 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Searching for importlib==1.0.3
Best match: importlib 1.0.3
Adding importlib 1.0.3 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Searching for websocket-client==0.22.0
Best match: websocket-client 0.22.0
Adding websocket-client 0.22.0 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Searching for requests==2.5.2
Best match: requests 2.5.2
Processing requests-2.5.2-py2.7.egg
requests 2.5.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.5.2-py2.7.egg
Searching for backports.ssl-match-hostname==3.4.0.2
Best match: backports.ssl-match-hostname 3.4.0.2
Adding backports.ssl-match-hostname 3.4.0.2 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Searching for six==1.8.0
Best match: six 1.8.0
Adding six 1.8.0 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Finished processing dependencies for limbo==3.0.0a2
make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/slask'
rm -rf build dist limbo.egg-info
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/slask'
bin/limbo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/limbo", line 17, in <module>
    main(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/limbo-3.0.0a2-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 165, in main
    server = init_server(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/limbo-3.0.0a2-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 154, in init_server
    slack = Client(config["token"])
KeyError: 'token'
make: *** [run] Error 1
ubuntu@ip-172-31-28-218:~/slask$ echo $SLACK_TOKEN
xoxb-REDACTED28-REDACTEDREDACTEDREDACTEDT

The bot is running and then a new user is being added to the team. When the new user is trying to execute the bot command he/she will trigger the KeyError because server.slack.server.users hasn't been updated when the user got added. -> https://github.com/llimllib/limbo/blob/master/limbo/limbo.py#L131

And test that it still works on heroku. Is there any way to automate that?

i.e. if you type "I love to eat bananas", the plugin does something to try and convert that into a string of emoji. It probably involves a list of synonyms? Maybe even a word model? Or it does something really simple? I don't know, but it would be an awesome feature.

Slask occasionally loses its connection, but does not fail. Find and fix

create a plugin to generate text banners with pyfiglet. This will be an interesting test because we will have to create an attachment rather than just return the text (right?)

In [4]: pyfiglet.print_figlet("bananas")
 _
| |__   __ _ _ __   __ _ _ __   __ _ ___
| '_ \ / _` | '_ \ / _` | '_ \ / _` / __|
| |_) | (_| | | | | (_| | | | | (_| \__ \
|_.__/ \__,_|_| |_|\__,_|_| |_|\__,_|___/



In [5]: pyfiglet.print_figlet("bananas", font="slant")
    __
   / /_  ____ _____  ____ _____  ____ ______
  / __ \/ __ `/ __ \/ __ `/ __ \/ __ `/ ___/
 / /_/ / /_/ / / / / /_/ / / / / /_/ (__  )
/_.___/\__,_/_/ /_/\__,_/_/ /_/\__,_/____/

No reason it shouldn't

When i add my own plugin, running '!help' just tried to run every single plugin and prints a bunch of errors similar to the below:

2015-10-29 10:04:08,502:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): secure.flickr.com
2015-10-29 10:04:10,017:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): encrypted.google.com
2015-10-29 10:04:10,581:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): en.wikipedia.org
2015-10-29 10:04:10,852:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.google.com
2015-10-29 10:04:11,114:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.youtube.com
2015-10-29 10:04:11,415:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.google.com
usage: limbo [-h] [--font FONT] [-l] [bannertext [bannertext ...]]
limbo: error: unrecognized arguments: option to list available fonts
2015-10-29 10:04:11,678:WARNING:limbo.limbo:Failed to run plugin <function on_message at 0x7f1d28ee8938>, module not loaded
2015-10-29 10:04:11,678:WARNING:limbo.limbo:<type 'exceptions.SystemExit'>
2015-10-29 10:04:11,679:WARNING:limbo.limbo:Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/limbo-3.7.0-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 99, in run_hook
    h = hook(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/limbo-3.7.0-py2.7.egg/limbo/plugins/banner.py", line 40, in on_message
    return make_banner(match[0])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/limbo-3.7.0-py2.7.egg/limbo/plugins/banner.py", line 20, in make_banner
    ns = ARGPARSE.parse_args(query.split(" "))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/argparse.py", line 1704, in parse_args
    self.error(msg % ' '.join(argv))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/argparse.py", line 2374, in error
    self.exit(2, _('%s: error: %s\n') % (self.prog, message))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/argparse.py", line 2362, in exit
    _sys.exit(status)
SystemExit: 2

2015-10-29 10:04:11,681:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): www.shutterstock.com
2015-10-29 10:04:12,276:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): encrypted.google.com
2015-10-29 10:04:12,764:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): whatthecommit.co

I'd like to see updates to messages as users edit them, but the core looks specifically for "message_changed" subtypes and ignores them. Why is this one subtype special enough to hide from me? :(

Right now it's possible to send slack-formatted messages via server.slack.post_message, as in the github plugin.

Messages sent via returns are sent with parse=full, which means that slack auto-links URLs, but also that plugins can't send formatted responses. Is there any easier way to allow plugins to send slack-formatted messages? Should there be more bandwidth between plugins and the kernel? Can it be done without adding too much complexity?

Sparked by #56

Do you know if it's possible to avoid slack parsing the message when you recieve a message? Ie a message like honshuu-api-lb1.wdc.sl will be parsed as <http://honshuu-api-lb1.wdc.sl|honshuu-api-lb1.wdc.sl> which isn't desirable.

for example when i get a quote for WBC.AX google returns this:

Westpac Banking Corp Fully Paid Ord. Shrs
ASX: WBC - 5 Jul., 10:24 am AEST
28.56AUDPrice decrease0.42 (1.47%)

limbo formats it very nicely - BUT - the actual quote provided by google is 20 minutes lag to current time. I just want to be reminded that it is a quote from the past -- "DELAYED QUOTE - 20MINS" or just show the time.. However is easiest to do it -- please.

Also - Thank you for a great product - am loving limbo ! :)

It's a bad practice to store keys in source control and Heroku typically recommends (via the 12factor guidelines) to store them and other application configuration in environment variables. I modified the config.py to contain the following as a result:

import os
config = {
   "token": os.environ.get('TOKEN'),

Free Slack groups don't get unlimited history; slask should have the ability to save all chat history

Slask should give each plugin access to a sqlite db.

I haven't fully investigated this bug yet, but I think this happens when I invite the bot to a private channel and try interacting with it.

2015-01-26T23:05:19.055547+00:00 app[worker.1]: Traceback (most recent call last):
2015-01-26T23:05:19.055569+00:00 app[worker.1]:   File "slask.py", line 117, in <module>
2015-01-26T23:05:19.055590+00:00 app[worker.1]:     main(config)
2015-01-26T23:05:19.055626+00:00 app[worker.1]:   File "slask.py", line 108, in main
2015-01-26T23:05:19.055665+00:00 app[worker.1]:     client.rtm_send_message(event["channel"], response)
2015-01-26T23:05:19.055721+00:00 app[worker.1]:     return self.server.channels.find(channel).send_message(message)
2015-01-26T23:05:19.055696+00:00 app[worker.1]:   File "/app/slackclient/_client.py", line 36, in rtm_send_message
2015-01-26T23:05:19.055825+00:00 app[worker.1]: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'send_message'

Why do the standard plugins use msg.get("text", "") instead of just referencing msg["text"]. They're DICT type objects after all and indexing in that manner would be more Pythonic as far as I can tell.

I should add some code in limbo.loop which tests the connection's state and crashes if we've failed.

Overnight, I seem to be losing connection but limbo keeps running.

We should be able to tell slask, "follow this RSS feed and send a message when it's updated".

e.g. it would great if slask would monitor the Heroku status blog and send us a notification when Heroku has issues

Just out of curiousity I was wondering why you forked the python-slackclient and use that rather than the one that is officially maintained. Any particular reason?

Anyway to get the bot to respond to a user directly rather than in the channel?

Is there any way to schedule jobs using limbo?

requires #18

Our slack room has a problem with lurker ghosts, and I need to deal with them in a polite way. I propose the following:

For channels:

1. Detect lurkers which have been idle (i.e. not said anything in the channel) for x number of days
2. Send a DM and check to make sure they still have email, electricity, etc.
3. Kick them from the channel if they haven't responded to the DM with "still alive" or some other response, and tell them why

For the team:

1. Detect lurkers which have been idle (i.e. not said anything in any channel) for x number of days
2. Publicly mention them in the default channel by making a joke about their inactivity
3. Send a DM and inform their membership will be revoked if they don't wish to participate

I can begin working on this myself, but much time will pass before I'll be able to make a pull request, so thought I would put the idea out there for now.

We should be able to tell slask "at 5p on Monday-Friday, send this message"

Right now users have to add their own openweathermap key; make sure that ours has been ceritified to be included.

Via #56

Platform: OSX 10.11.3
Python version: Python 2.7.11

Problem:
All the following chats raise IndexError: list index out of range
!search what is apple
!search what is banana
!search what is slack
!google what is apple
!google what is banana
!google what is slack

But not all these pattern chatting raise IndexError. For instance, this is okay:
!search what is abc123
!google what is abc123

Hi,
i tryed to launch your bot under proxy but i can't connect,
i can't find where define it in the code.

can you help me please?
this is the error i have:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bin/limbo", line 17, in
main(args)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/limbo-3.5.1-py2.7.egg/limbo/limbo.py", line 247, in main
server.slack.rtm_connect()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slackrtm-0.2.1-py2.7.egg/slackrtm/client.py", line 14, in rtm_connect
self.server.rtm_connect()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slackrtm-0.2.1-py2.7.egg/slackrtm/server.py", line 61, in rtm_connect
self.connect_slack_websocket(self.ws_url)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slackrtm-0.2.1-py2.7.egg/slackrtm/server.py", line 80, in connect_slack_websocket
raise SlackConnectionError
slackrtm.server.SlackConnectionError
make: *** [run] Error 1

Can create graphs of channel statistics. Ideas for statistics:

• Activity per room/person
• links submitted, duplicate links submitted, % thereof