Invoke giphy search in slack nestor bot reply

Question

The giphy plugin is in use in a Slack channel, would it be possible for the nestor bot reply to have a giphy search invoked by something like msg.reply('/giphy ' + text, done);

Answer 1

I found out they are not allowed here. I made a way around by using the superagent npm for ajax and the giphy api in my slackbot file like this:

  var url = 'https://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/search?q=' + 'searchString' + '&api_key=dc6zaTOxFJmzC&rating=r';
  request.get(url).end( function(err, res) {
    // console.log(res.body.data)
    bot.reply(message, 'giphy for you ' +  searchString + giph);
});

Hope this helps