gitter-listener

Listen for gitter room events and messages.

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• API
• Events
  • chatMessages
  • events
  • users
• About
  • Related projects
  • Contributing
  • Building docs
  • Running tests
  • Author
  • License

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Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save gitter-listener

Usage

var Gitter = require('gitter-listener');

API

Client

Creates a client that listens for gitter events.

Params

• token {String}: Gitter token from the gitter developer apps page.
• options {Object}: Additional options to pass along to [node-gitter]

Example

var gitter = Gitter(process.env.GITTER_TOKEN);

.listen

Tell the client to start listening for gitter events. Setup any event listeners for the events before starting the client.

Params

• rooms {Array}: Optional array of rooms to listen to. If empty, the client will use all the rooms the gitter user has previously joined. The gitter user is the user associated with the token used above.
• returns {Promise}: Returns a promise that will resolve to a boolean when the client has finished setting up listeners.

Example

gitter.on('chatMessages', console.log);
gitter.on('users', console.log);
gitter.on('events', console.log);

gitter.listen();

Events

The following events will be emitted after .listen has been called and are available to be listened for:

chatMessages

The chatMessages event will be emitted when anything happens to a chat message. Check the .operation property to see what is happening to the message:

gitter.on('chatMessages', function(msg, room) {
  console.log(msg);
  switch (msg.operation) {
    case 'create':
      // new message being created
      break;
    case 'patch':
      // message was updated (e.g. someone marked it as "read")
      break;
  }
});

events

The events event will be emitted when an event in the room occurs.

gitter.on('events', function(event, room) {
  console.log(event);
});

users

The users event will be emitted when a user joins or leaves a room:

gitter.on('users', function(user, room) {
  console.log(user);
});

About

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Please read the contributing guide for avice on opening issues, pull requests, and coding standards.

Building docs

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Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Brian Woodward

• github/doowb
• twitter/doowb

License

Copyright © 2016, Brian Woodward. Released under the MIT license.

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