Broid Gitter Integration

Broid Integrations is an open source project providing a suite of Activity Streams 2 libraries for unified communications among a vast number of communication platforms.

Connect your App to Multiple Messaging Channels with One OpenSource Language.

Message types supported

| Simple | Image | Video | Buttons | Location | Phone number | |:------:|:-----:|:-----:|:-------:|:--------:|:------------:| | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | | |

Buttons, Location, Phone number are platform limitations.

Getting started

Install

npm install --save @broid/gitter

Connect to Gitter

const BroidGitter = require('@broid/gitter');

const gitter = new BroidGitter({
  token: '<your_action_name_here>'
});

gitter.connect()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(data),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  });

Options available

| name | Type | default | Description | | --------------- |:--------:| :--------: | --------------------------| | serviceID | string | random | Arbitrary identifier of the running instance | | logLevel | string | info | Can be : fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace | | token | string | | Gitter token. |

Receive a message

gitter.listen()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(`Received message: ${data}`),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  });

Post a message

To send a message, the format should use the broid-schemas.

const formatted_message = {
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "gitter"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "Note",
    "content": "hello world"
  },
  "to": {
    "id": "588f9929d73402ce4f470489",
    "type": "Group"
  }
};

gitter.send(formatted_message)
  .then(() => console.log("ok"))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

Examples of messages

You can find examples of sent and received messages at Broid-Schemas.

Contributing to Broid

See CONTRIBUTE.md

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Broid.ai

This project is licensed under the AGPL 3, which can be found here.