zulip/contrib_bots/bots/howdoi

Howdoi bot

This bot will allow users to get technical answers from StackOverflow. It is build on top of the python command line tool howdoi by Benjamin Gleitzman.

Usage

Simply prepend your questions with one of the following commands. The answer will be formatted differently depending the chosen command.

Command	Respond
@howdowe	Concise answer to the same stream.
@howdowe!	Same as @howdowe but with full answer and URL of the solutions.
@howdoi	Concise answer replied to sender via private message.
@howdoi!	Same as @howdoi but with full answer and URL of the solutions.

Screenshots

Example 1

Question -> @howdowe use supervisor in elixir

Answer -> Howdoi would try to only respond with the coding section of the answer.

Example 2

Question -> @howdoi! stack vs heap

Answer -> Howdoi would return the full stackoverflow answer via private message to the original sender. The URL of the answer can be seen at the bottom of the message.

Note:

• Line wrapped is enabled with a maximum line length of 85 characters. This could be adjusted in the source code (HowdoiHandler.MAX_LINE_LENGTH).

• Howdoi generally perform better if you ask a question using keywords instead of a complete sentences (eg: "How do i make a decorator in Python" -> "python decorator").

• [Limitation] If a answer contains multiple code blocks, the @howdoi and @howdowe commands would only return the first coding section, use @howdo[we|i]! in that case.