Hubot Response Formatting Plugin?

[jotterbot]

Hey Guys,

if i do:
@hubot map me sydney, australia

I get a response like this:

http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?markers=sydney&size=400x400&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false&format=png
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=sydney&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=73.579623,100.371094&vpsrc=0&hnear=sydney&t=m&z=11

I have played around with the replacements plugin (in lets-chat) and mapping eg. "maps.google.com.*" responses to img tags, but couldn't seem to make it work. Lets-chat seems to be hard coding everything as links - I can't override the result to be generic html code.

Can you describe what is required in order to have the first line be rendered as an image (if i tack on .png on the end it works) , and the second line as the URL linked to.

This is just one example. So I guess putting it another way, will there be some mechanism to integrate hubot responses (no matter what the hubot plugin) in lets-chat so that the formatting is "pretty" or more user friendly? Is this better to lodge as an issue in the main lets-chat repo?

[hhaidar]

Hey @jotterbot,

Yup, this is a feature request in the main repo: #244

I'm not sure when it'll be in (probably 0.5.x), but you can definitely try modifying the source to parse google maps: https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat/blob/master/media/js/util/message.js

Another thing we can try is processing plugins before links. That might work for your use case too.