@orbit-love/stackoverflow

Stack Overflow to Orbit Workspace

This is a JavaScript package that can be used to integrate Stack Overflow questions with a specified tag into your organization's Orbit workspace.

:sparkles: This is a community project. The Orbit team does its best to maintain it and keep it up to date with any recent API changes. We welcome community contributions to make sure that it stays current. :sparkles:

First Time Setup

To set up this integration you will need some details from StackOverflow. During the setup, we will need to create a new application on Stack Apps which will allow this integration to interact with the platform. The application will contain a Key which we should take note of for later.

1. Head to Stack Apps and login in to your account.
2. Register a new Stack Apps application. The oauth domain can be anything, as can the application website.
3. In your application settings, take note of your Key value.

Application Credentials

The application requires the following environment variables:

Variable	Description	More Info
STACK_APPS_KEY	API Key to query Stack Overflow	Follow the First Time Setup guide above
ORBIT_API_KEY	API key for Orbit	Found in Account Settings in your Orbit workspace
ORBIT_WORKSPACE_ID	ID for your Orbit workspace	Last part of the Orbit workspace URL, i.e. https://app.orbit.love/my-workspace, the ID is my-workspace

Installation

Install the package with the following command

$ npm install @orbit-love/stackoverflow

The standard initialization of the library requires the following signature:

const OrbitStackOverflow = require('@orbit-love/stackoverflow')
const orbitStackOverflow = new OrbitStackOverflow('orbitWorkspaceId', 'orbitApiKey', 'stackAppsKey')

If you have the following environment variables set: ORBIT_WORKSPACE_ID, ORBIT_API_KEY, and STACK_APPS_KEY then you can initialize the client as follows:

const OrbitStackOverflow = require('@orbit-love/stackoverflow')
const orbitStackOverflow = new OrbitStackOverflow()

Questions

// Allows you to go back a number of hours and only get questions in that timeframe
const questions = await orbitStackOverflow.getQuestions({ tag: 'tag-1', hours: 24 })
const prepared = await orbitStackOverflow.prepareQuestions(questions)
const summary = await orbitStackOverflow.addActivities(prepared)
console.log(summary)

prepareQuestions()

There are several options when calling the prepareQuestions() method. The default is 'orbitActivity'.

// Returns question list as Orbit activity objects
await orbitStackOverflow.prepareQuestions(questions, 'orbitActivity')

// Returns questions that have at least one answer
await orbitStackOverflow.prepareQuestions(questions, 'hasAnswer')

// Returns questions with recent activity
await orbitStackOverflow.prepareQuestions(questions, 'recentActivity', { hours: 24 })

// Returns questions that are new within a number of hours - useful for post-fetching filtering
await orbitStackOverflow.prepareQuestions(questions, 'postedWithinHours', { hours: 24 })

// Returns an array of question IDs only
await orbitStackOverflow.prepareQuestions(questions, 'onlyIds')

Answers

const questionIds = [123, 456, 789]
const answers = await orbitStackOverflow.getAnswers({ ids: questionIds, hours: 24 })
const prepared = await orbitStackOverflow.prepareAnswers(questions)
const summary = await orbitStackOverflow.addActivities(prepared)
console.log(summary)

CLI Usage

To use this package you do not need to install it, but will need Node.js installed on your machine.

To use the CLI you must have the following environment variables set: ORBIT_WORKSPACE_ID, ORBIT_API_KEY, and STACK_APPS_KEY.

npx @orbit-love/stackoverflow [FLAGS]

Questions

npx @orbit-love/stackoverflow --questions --tag=tag-1 [--hours=12]

• --hours is optional and defaults to 24.

Answers

npx @orbit-love/stackoverflow --answers --tag=tag-1 [--hours=12]

• --hours is optional and defaults to 24.
• This will only get answers on questions posted in the last 28 days.

Questions & Answers

npx @orbit-love/stackoverflow --questions --answers --tag=tag-1 [--hours=12]

• --hours is optional and defaults to 24.
• This will only get answers on questions posted in the last 28 days.

GitHub Actions Automation Setup

⚡ You can set up this integration in a matter of minutes using our GitHub Actions template. It will run regularly to add new activities to your Orbit workspace. All you need is a GitHub account.

See our guide for setting up this automation.

Contributing

We 💜 contributions from everyone! Check out the Contributing Guidelines for more information.

License

This project is under the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

This project uses the Contributor Code of Conduct. We ask everyone to please adhere by its guidelines.