hipcat 0.0.8

# HipCat

Pipe things to HipChat from the command-line!

Inspired by [Slackcat](https://github.com/rlister/slackcat)!

## Installation

You will need a working installation of [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) (you probably already have this if you’re on Linux or OSX) and [PIP](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/).

`bash pip install hipcat `

Go to [https://www.hipchat.com/account/api](https://www.hipchat.com/account/api) and create a new token. It only needs the ‘Send Notification’ scope, but this may change in future.

Create a file at ~/.hipcat.ini that looks a bit like this:

`ini [hipcat] access_token = <put-your-token here> `

## Using hipcat

You can get help by running hipcat –help, but the basics look like this:

`bash # Pipe output from one command to HipChat: echo 'This is my message' | hipcat 'Room Name' `

If you don’t want to pass the message via a pipe, you can instead provide it as a parameter:

`bash # Run a long running command and then notify on HipChat my-long-task && hipcat 'Notifications' -m "The long-running task is done" `

## Contributing to hipcat

You want to contribute? Love you!

There’s some stuff you should know:

• Please don’t backport it to Python 2. Yes, I know it’s easy. We should all be writing Python 3 now.

• Please treat other contributors and commenters with respect.

• Please ensure that any changes follow PEP-8.

• When I add tests (there aren’t any yet!) I plan to use py.test. If you want to help by addind tests, let’s talk about it first.

## To Do

• Add –quote option for pre-pending the message with /quote

• Add a –code option for pre-pending the message with /code

• Add a flag to send the output to HipChat line-by-line rather than at the end.

• Err… post a GitHub issue if you want to see a new feature, and we’ll talk!