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| # Flock Bot
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| With [Flock](https://flock.com/) bot, you can send messages to any of your
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|  flock contact without having to leave Zulip.
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| Sending messages to a user is quite easy, syntax is:
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| `@botname recipient_name: hello`
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| where `recipient_name` is name of recipient and `hello` is the sample message.
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| ## Configuration
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| 1. Before running Flock bot, you'll need a `token`. In order to get `token`,
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|  Go to [Flock apps](https://dev.flock.com/apps) and create an app.
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|    After successful installation, you'll get an `token` in response from servers.
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| 1. Once you have `token`, you should supply it in `flock.conf` file.
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| 
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| ## Usage
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| Run this bot as described in
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|  [here](https://zulip.com/api/running-bots#running-a-bot).
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| You can use this bot in one easy step:
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| `@botname recipient_firstName: message`
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| For help, do `@botname help`.
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