Gob

A Giphy Zulip bot, inspired by Lucille and Buster.

@-mention your bot's name (or type /giphy) and a search term into Zulip, and voila, a random gif matching that term appears.

Get Started

• Make a Zulip bot on your settings page -- we recommend calling it "Giphy" or "Gob"
• Edit gob.py to specify the Zulip bot information, the streams you want to listen on, and a Giphy API key

Requirements

• The Zulip Python API

References

• The Giphy API: https://github.com/Giphy/GiphyAPI
• Zubot, a lightweight framework for writing Zulip bots like this: https://github.com/showell/zubot-python

Shoutouts

• Robert Haining, author of Lucille.
• Andrew Bonventre from Poptip, author of Buster, a Golang version of the above

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