A handy little script to create a text-based transcript from a Hipchat room.

hipchat-transcript

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require "httparty"

def usage!
  puts "Usage: hipchat-transcript <token> <room id> [date]"
  exit!
end

TOKEN = (ARGV[0] || usage!)
ROOM_ID = (ARGV[1] || usage!)
DATE = (ARGV[2] || "recent")

class Message
  attr_reader :time, :name, :body

  def initialize(hash)
    @time = Time.parse(hash["date"])
    @name = hash["from"]["name"]
    @body = hash["message"]
    if hash["file"]
      file = "[#{hash["file"]["name"]}]"
      if @body == ""
        @body = file
      else
        @body += " #{file}"
      end
    end
  end
end

class Room
  include HTTParty
  base_uri "https://api.hipchat.com/v1/rooms"
  default_params auth_token: TOKEN
  format :json

  def initialize(room)
    @room = room
  end

  def history(date)
    result = self.class.get("/history", query: {room_id: @room, date: date, timezone: "UTC"})
    result["messages"].collect do |m|
      Message.new(m)
    end
  end
end

Room.new(ROOM_ID).history(DATE).each do |message|
  puts "(#{message.time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}) #{message.name}: #{message.body}"
end