hubot-observe

A hubot script that checks a json resource and notifies the channel if something changed.

See src/observe.coffee for full documentation.

Installation

In hubot project repo, run:

npm install hubot-observe --save

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

[
  "hubot-observe"
]

Example

Following JSON could your app provide to notify your channel every time when someone registers for your app:

{
  "text": "Newest user is foobar. There are 123 users."
}

To register hubot for that json, simply write

hubot observe:add http://url-to-the-json.com/

Error Case

If the URL is not available (or does not provide a JSON with a text property), Hubot will try to access it two other times before notifying the user once (to prevent spam):

Commands

• hubot observe[:help]: Show commands
• hubot observe:add <url> [interval=<interval>]: Add a job that observes a json with an optional interval (default is minutely)
• hubot observe:remove <url>: Remove a job by url
• hubot observe:list [all]: List all jobs in the room (or of all rooms)