Possibility of !doc command?

[trevarj]

Hi,

1. Is this the evalr bot running on Freenode ##rust ?
2. Is there any possibility to add a command that can link to https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/?search={search} ?

Thanks

[panicbit]

1. it should be running on freenode##rust, if not do let me know and I'll take care of it. same goes for other hosts and channels that you want eval/evalr in
2. absolutely! the easiest way would probably be to copy an existing command module and adapting it for that usecase. I'm not sure when I'll be able to tackle it, but I'll try to get it done around this weekend (2021-02-06)

[trevarj]

it should be running on freenode##rust

It is running, and used! 🙂

I was looking at the modules a bit and figured it may be as easy as copying the way of the ?cargo command

Thanks!

[trevarj]

Looked into this a little more and it seems like doc.rust-lang.org doesn't actually have an API to get to a page easily. The url for String is https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html, which requires you to specify that it is a struct, so it wouldn't be as easy as sending !doc String and just putting it into the URL template.

[panicbit]

I forgot to look into this last weekend 😑.
Anyway, I think the originally requested feature is easy to implement, but is also not much use I think.
The idea to be able to link directly to an item's doc would be more useful, but also a lot more difficult to implement well.
Theoretically I could go all fancy and spin up rust-analyzer to resolve an item and use it to link to the correct doc page, maybe even for external crates.

[trevarj]

No worries. We can close this probably