jadolg/RocketChatBot

webhook integration

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xu4wang commented

I noticed the robot is pulling messages every second, while there is a webhook interface from RocketChat, shall we use webhook for better performance? What do you think the pros/cons between pulling and webhook?

Thanks,
Austin

jadolg commented

I have actually not used this strategy for building bots for a long time. Mostly because rocket.chat started limiting the number of API calls you can make in an interval of time, so if your bot is on too many conversations it will eventually start erroring.
I made a bot with the webhooks approach https://github.com/jadolg/annoying_orange_bot but I have not made a lib for that just yet.
With this project I wanted not to do any web hosting, I wanted just to run my bot on my raspberry pi at home without exposing anything to the internet. That's not possible if you use the webhooks approach.

xu4wang commented

noted with thank. Will check your annoying orange bot. :-)