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Robert Hönig bc183b8e61 bots: tests: Remove superfluous sys.path insertion.		2017-06-19 07:11:08 -04:00
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assets	bots: Move contrib_bots to api/bots*.	2017-06-01 12:31:54 -07:00
__init__.py	bots: Move contrib_bots to api/bots*.	2017-06-01 12:31:54 -07:00
readme.md	bots: Move contrib_bots to api/bots*.	2017-06-01 12:31:54 -07:00
test_xkcd.py	bots: tests: Remove superfluous sys.path insertion.	2017-06-19 07:11:08 -04:00
xkcd.py	bots: Rename BotHandlerApi object `client` to `bot_handler`.	2017-06-13 11:13:23 -07:00

xkcd bot

xkcd bot is a Zulip bot that can fetch a comic strip from xkcd. To use xkcd bot you can simply call it with @xkcd followed by a command. Like this:

@xkcd <command>

xkcd bot has four commands:

help
This command is used to list all commands that can be used with this bot. You can use this command by typing @xkcd help in a stream.
latest
This command is used to fetch the latest comic strip from xkcd. You can use this command by typing @xkcd latest in a stream.
random
This command is used to fetch a random comic strip from xkcd. You can use this command by typing @xkcd random in a stream, xkcd bot will post a random xkcd comic strip.
<comic_id>
To fetch a comic strip based on id, you can directly use @xkcd <comic_id>, for example if you want to fetch a comic strip with id 1234, you can type @xkcd 1234, xkcd bot will post a comic strip with id 1234.

If you type a wrong command to xkcd bot, xkcd bot will post information you'd get from @xkcd help.

And if you type a wrong id, xkcd bot will post a message that an xkcd comic strip with that id is not available.