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scrapinghub / slackbot

A chat bot for Slack (https://slack.com).
MIT License
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slacker vs slackclient #107

Closed ghostsquad closed 7 years ago

ghostsquad commented 8 years ago

I'm curious why this is using the Slacker library + websockets instead of the Slackclient library. The websocket code here seems to have a bit of code redundancy to Slackclient. Can you shed some light? Not necessarily saying there's anything wrong with it, just wondering if there are some benefits you've gained by not using Slackclient.

jtatum commented 7 years ago

If you're referring to https://github.com/slackapi/python-slackclient, despite being out for over a year, still doesn't support Python 3. The pace of development on it has been slow, with 6 releases since the initial release. Slacker, by comparison, is on its 48th release. Finally, slackclient still uses the same websocket-client library inside. I didn't make the initial choice but if I was developing a bot today I'd go the same route until something changes with the official library.