githubbot: preview links with issues/PR from private repos and secret gist

[powerman]

It would be very useful to implement this feature. I suppose this means bot must run unrestricted to be able to read links in all messages. 😞 Maybe there is a way to let bot read only messages which begins with https://github.com/ and https://gist.github.com/ substrings?

[joshblum]

We could expose a !github show <url> command (jirabot does this) or if you just @-mention the bot it can scan the message for URLs to preview. cc @hyperobject

[powerman]

@-mention sounds more convenient.

BTW, I'm surprised to get an answer so fast - I was thinking you guys will have no time to work on keybase at all in next several months at least (because of Zoom). It's nice to see keybase isn't abandoned.

[cori-hudson]

We could expose a !github show <url> command (jirabot does this) or if you just @-mention the bot it can scan the message for URLs to preview. cc @hyperobject

yeah this would probably be pretty doable! would need to make sure that the github app already has the permissions we need to preview links, but i think we do?