Glitch Questions Webhook Trigger

Uses glitch-questions and triggers it on a constant basis, then sends a Webhook event

This project is messaging-service-agnostic, has been tested with Slack and Discord, but anything that generates webhooks, should be compatible. This is explained below.

Installation

npm install glitch-questions-webhook-trigger

Usage

var glitchQuestionsWebhookTrigger = require('glitch-questions-webhook-trigger');

glitchQuestionsWebhookTrigger(WEBHOOK_URL, MESSAGE_GENERATOR_FUNCTION, INTERVAL);

Configuration

The only exposed method is glitchQuestionsWebhookTrigger, is has some parameters:

webhook String. It's a full URL of the webhook. messageGenerator: Function. It's a method that will generate the message the webhook will output to the messaging service. This is explained below. interval: Integer. It's the interval on which the Glitch Questions API will be requested, you may want to use 10 or greater.

messageGenerator

This is the most complex setting to add, since this project is message-service-agnostic, a method needs to be passed to know what to output.

source value

Both the source, and a helper method getNewItems are passed, the first one has this structure:

[
  {
    questionId: 'GDRh5sTofDaHVSWQ',
    question: 'Question Text',
    url: 'https://glitch.com/edit/#!/project-name?path=index.js:0:0'
  },
  ...
]

You're free to use any of those values.

Here are a couple of examples, one for Slack and other for Discord:

Slack Message Generator

const messageGenerator = (source, getNewItems) =>
({
  text: "New questions:",
  attachments: getNewItems(source)
    .map(({question, url}) =>
      ({
        text: `${question}\n${url}`
      })
    )
});

Discord Message Generator

const messageGenerator = (source, getNewItems) =>
({
  embeds: [{
    fields: getNewItems(source)
      .map(({question, url}) =>
        ({
          name: question,
          value: url,
          inline: true
        })
      )
  }]
});

Tests

npm test