# Howdoi bot This bot will allow users to get technical answers from [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com). It is build on top of the python command line tool [howdoi](https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi) by Benjamin Gleitzman. ## Usage Simply prepend your questions with one of the following commands. The answer will be formatted differently depending the chosen command. | Command | Respond | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | | `@howdowe` | Concise answer to the same stream. | | `@howdowe!` | Same as `@howdowe` but with full answer and URL of the solutions. | | `@howdoi` | Concise answer replied to sender via private message. | | `@howdoi!` | Same as `@howdoi` but with full answer and URL of the solutions. | ## Screenshots #### Example 1 Question -> `@howdowe use supervisor in elixir`  Answer -> Howdoi would try to **only** respond with the coding section of the answer.  #### Example 2 Question -> `@howdoi! stack vs heap`  Answer -> Howdoi would return the **full** stackoverflow answer via **private message** to the original sender. The URL of the answer can be seen at the bottom of the message.  **Note:** * Line wrapped is enabled with a maximum line length of 85 characters. This could be adjusted in the source code (`HowdoiHandler.MAX_LINE_LENGTH`). * *Howdoi* generally perform better if you ask a question using keywords instead of a complete sentences (eg: "How do i make a decorator in Python" -> "python decorator"). * __[*Limitation*]__ If a answer contains multiple code blocks, the `@howdoi` and `@howdowe` commands would only return the first coding section, use `@howdo[we|i]!` in that case.