how to send formatted messages to rocketchat from hubot?

Question

I would like to prepare formatted messages to rocketchat from hubot but I can't find any reference for that.

That's my main reference: http://theprogrammingbutler.com/blog/archives/2011/10/28/hubot-scripts-explained/

I have tried this:

    msg.http(url)
        .headers("PRIVATE-TOKEN": api_key, Accept: 'application/json')
        .get() (err, response, body) ->
            try
                json = JSON.parse(body)

                for issue in json 
                    msg.send "#{issue.title}"
            catch error
                msg.send "Sistema not found."
                console.log(error)

But I would like some more rich and elaborated.

Any sugestion ??

Thanks.

Are you attempting to call the rest API from hubot? Or are you using the rocket.chat adapter and trying to send a formatted message? — Aaron Ogle, Jul 23 '17 at 06:49
Hi Aaron, I'm using rocket.chat adapter and trying to send a formatted message. The formatted messages in Slack bots are very rich in experience and I would like to do the same with Rocket. Regards. — Jose Ricardo Xavier, Jul 31 '17 at 13:38

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 03 '17 at 20:51

The hubot adapter for Rocket.Chat has a method called customMessage. You can include attachments like you would with slack to achieve rich messages.

To use customMessage use something like this:

robot.adapter.customMessage({
  channel: room,
  attachments: [
    {
       title: "New Event",
       title_link: "http://example.com/event",
       text: "<img src=\"http://example.com/picture\" width=\"20\" /> <a href=\"http://example.com/events/1234\">Event 1234</a>: <br /> urgent event"
    }
  ]
});

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 01 '18 at 19:25

I had a similar need. What worked for me was using the image_url field, documented in the realtime API documentation:

module.exports = function(robot) {
  robot.respond(/image/i, function(res) {
        resposta = robot.adapter.customMessage({
            channel: room,
            attachments: [
                {
                   title: "Image",
                   title_link: "http://www.example.com",
                   image_url: "http://www.example.com/image.png",
                   text: "This image"
                }
            ]
        });
  });
};

how to send formatted messages to rocketchat from hubot?

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