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hubot-group

A script that expands mentions of groups, making it easy to ping groups of people without manually typing out a bunch of names. hubot-group is fully configurable via chat.

Demo

Installation

In hubot project repo, run:

npm install hubot-group --save

Then add hubot-group to your external-scripts.json:

[
  "hubot-group"
]

If you want to be able to change configuration settings from the chat without having to use environment variables, you should also install hubot-conf.

Usage

hubot-group is pretty intuitive to use. Run the help command ({botname} help group) in your chat to see help documentation.

Tips

You can add groups to other groups by referring to a group as &groupname. For example, you can create a frontend group that contains a bunch of members, and then you can create a dev group that includes &frontend.

Configuration

hubot-group can be configured either using hubot-conf or environment variables. hubot-conf settings override environment variables.

For all of the settings below like HUBOT_SETTING_NAME, you can change the setting via chat by saying {botname} conf set setting.name "{new value}" (the setting name is mapped by skipping the HUBOT_ part, changing to lowercase, and replacing _ with .).

HUBOT_GROUP_DECORATOR - a character indicating how to decorate usernames. Valid settings are <, (, [, and {. This variable can also be left unset. This seting defaults to `` (empty string), which is appropriate for Slack.
HUBOT_GROUP_PREPEND - set to false to disable prepending the original message to the response. This variable can also be left unset. This setting defaults to true.
HUBOT_GROUP_PREPEND_USERNAME - set to false to disable prepending the original username to the prepended message. This variable can also be left unset. This setting defaults to true.
HUBOT_GROUP_TRUNCATE - number of characters from the original message to display when HUBOT_GROUP_PREPEND is set. Set to a value less than or equal to zero to disable truncating. This setting defaults to 50.
HUBOT_GROUP_RECURSE - set to false to disable recursive group expansion. This setting defaults to true.