hubot-basecamp v0.6.1

Basecamp URL Expander for Hubot

A simple bot that listens for basecamp.com discussions and todos expanding them with more useful information via the Basecamp API.

Recognizes

• discussions
• individual todos
• todo lists

Renders

• discussion title, first post and latest comment
• todo title, due date, assignee, first post, latest comment
• specific comments on discussions and todos if #comment_12345678 URL fragments are detected
• direct links to associated files
• todo list summary

Examples

Individual todo

In Slack individual todo URLs of the form https://basecamp.com/1234567/projects/1234567/todos/123456789 with an assignee, due date and attachments look something like this

Discussion with specific comment

You can also just extract a particular comment from a discussion (or a todo) by including the fragment in the URL. So, something like https://basecamp.com/1234567/projects/1234567/messages/12345678#comment_123456789 looks something like this

Todo list

Summary information for a todolist is also provided:

Installation

In hubot project repo, run:

npm install hubot-basecamp --save

Then add hubot-basecamp to your external-scripts.json:

["hubot-basecamp"]

Configuration

You'll need to configure the following environment variables so that hubot knows about your Basecamp account:

HUBOT_BCX_ACCOUNT_ID
HUBOT_BCX_USERNAME
HUBOT_BCX_PASSWORD

The HUBOT_BCX_ACCOUNT_ID is the number that comes directly after basecamp.com in the URL after you are logged into your account. For example, in https://basecamp.com/1234567/projects/7654321/todolists it would be 1234567.

You can use your own username (or email address) and password in the configuration of HUBOT_BCX_USERNAME and HUBOT_BCX_PASSWORD -- hubot will only have access to those projects that this user has access to. It's a good idea to:

• create a user for hubot in your Basecamp project
• add this user to all projects
• add this user to any templates you have so hubot gets added to new template based projects

Issues and Feature Requests

If you're having an issue, please describe it to me, and I'll do my best to address is.

If you've got a good idea for something hubot should do, create the issue and tag it as an enhancement.