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gfaraj / super-bot

A simple but extensible bot written in Node (with Whatsapp, Slack, and Discord interfaces)
MIT License
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Add ability to funnel the response of one command to another #12

Closed gfaraj closed 4 years ago

gfaraj commented 4 years ago

I would like to pass the output of one command as the input of another command effortlessly.

One way that this can be implemented is similar to pipes in a command-line:

!translate es Hello, how are you? | translate en

The above example executes the first command - which translates "Hello, how are you?" into Spanish - and then pipes the response - "¿Hola, como estas?" to the next command in the pipeline. This would end up calling "translate en ¿Hola, como estas?" which would re-translate that to English.

You should be able to have more than one pipe in a single line.

If there are better ways of achieving something similar, we can discuss them as well.

gfaraj commented 4 years ago

This is now done and merged to master.