Parse slack mrkdwn links with regex (#50)

* Parse slack messages to HTML

This only sort-of works thanks to slack's derpy `mrkdwn` format.

* ooo crusty :)

* Revert "ooo crusty :)"

This reverts commit 75396e9.

* Parse links with a crusty-ass ChatGPT regex

go.mod

@@ -3,37 +3,43 @@ module github.com/willnilges/cursed-status-page
 go 1.21.1
 
 require (
-	github.com/antonholmquist/jason v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.9.1
+	github.com/joho/godotenv v1.5.1
+	github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday v1.0.26
+	github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.0
+	github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0
+	github.com/slack-go/slack v0.12.3
+	github.com/tidwall/gjson v1.17.0
+)
+
+require (
+	github.com/aymerick/douceur v0.2.0 // indirect
 	github.com/bytedance/sonic v1.9.1 // indirect
 	github.com/chenzhuoyu/base64x v0.0.0-20221115062448-fe3a3abad311 // indirect
 	github.com/gabriel-vasile/mimetype v1.4.2 // indirect
 	github.com/gin-contrib/sse v0.1.0 // indirect
-	github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.9.1 // indirect
 	github.com/go-playground/locales v0.14.1 // indirect
 	github.com/go-playground/universal-translator v0.18.1 // indirect
 	github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 v10.14.0 // indirect
 	github.com/goccy/go-json v0.10.2 // indirect
+	github.com/gorilla/css v1.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.2 // indirect
-	github.com/joho/godotenv v1.5.1 // indirect
 	github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.12 // indirect
 	github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2 v2.2.4 // indirect
 	github.com/leodido/go-urn v1.2.4 // indirect
 	github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.19 // indirect
 	github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180306012644-bacd9c7ef1dd // indirect
 	github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v1.0.2 // indirect
 	github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2 v2.0.8 // indirect
-	github.com/robfig/cron/v3 v3.0.0 // indirect
-	github.com/slack-go/slack v0.12.3 // indirect
-	github.com/tidwall/gjson v1.17.0 // indirect
 	github.com/tidwall/match v1.1.1 // indirect
 	github.com/tidwall/pretty v1.2.0 // indirect
 	github.com/twitchyliquid64/golang-asm v0.15.1 // indirect
 	github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.2.11 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/arch v0.3.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/crypto v0.9.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/net v0.10.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.8.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/text v0.9.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/crypto v0.16.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/net v0.19.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.15.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/text v0.14.0 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.30.0 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )

go.sum

@@ -1,32 +1,39 @@
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-github.com/antonholmquist/jason v1.0.0/go.mod h1:+GxMEKI0Va2U8h3os6oiUAetHAlGMvxjdpAH/9uvUMA=
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+github.com/go-test/deep v1.0.4 h1:u2CU3YKy9I2pmu9pX0eq50wCgjfGIt539SqR7FbHiho=
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+github.com/google/go-cmp v0.5.7 h1:81/ik6ipDQS2aGcBfIN5dHDB36BwrStyeAQquSYCV4o=
 github.com/google/go-cmp v0.5.7/go.mod h1:n+brtR0CgQNWTVd5ZUFpTBC8YFBDLK/h/bpaJ8/DtOE=
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+github.com/gorilla/css v1.0.1 h1:ntNaBIghp6JmvWnxbZKANoLyuXTPZ4cAMlo6RyhlbO8=
+github.com/gorilla/css v1.0.1/go.mod h1:BvnYkspnSzMmwRK+b8/xgNPLiIuNZr6vbZBTPQ2A3b0=
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@@ -40,16 +47,21 @@ github.com/leodido/go-urn v1.2.4 h1:XlAE/cm/ms7TE/VMVoduSpNBoyc2dOxHs5MZSwAN63Q=
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+github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday v1.0.26 h1:xbqSvqzQMeEHCqMi64VAs4d8uy6Mequs3rQ0k/Khz58=
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 github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180228061459-e0a39a4cb421/go.mod h1:6dJC0mAP4ikYIbvyc7fijjWJddQyLn8Ig3JB5CqoB9Q=
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+github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0 h1:JIOH55/0cWyOuilr9/qlrm0BSXldqnqwMsf35Ld67mk=
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@@ -62,6 +74,7 @@ github.com/stretchr/testify v1.7.1/go.mod h1:6Fq8oRcR53rry900zMqJjRRixrwX3KX962/
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@@ -76,20 +89,22 @@ github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.2.11/go.mod h1:UNopzCgEMSXjBc6AOMqYvWC1ktqTAfzJZUZ
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-golang.org/x/crypto v0.9.0/go.mod h1:yrmDGqONDYtNj3tH8X9dzUun2m2lzPa9ngI6/RUPGR0=
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page.go

@@ -9,14 +9,15 @@ import (
 
 type StatusUpdate struct {
 	Text            string
+	HTML            template.HTML
 	SentBy          string
 	TimeStamp       string
 	BackgroundClass string
 	IconFilename    string
 }
 
 type CSPPage struct {
-	updates []StatusUpdate
+	updates       []StatusUpdate
 	pinnedUpdates []StatusUpdate
 }
 

service.go

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 
 type CSPService interface {
 	BuildStatusPage() error
-	StatusPage(gin *gin.Context) 
+	StatusPage(gin *gin.Context)
 	SendReminders() error
 	Run()
 }

slack.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"html/template"
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
@@ -27,13 +28,13 @@ const (
 )
 
 type CSPSlack struct {
-	slackAPI *slack.Client
+	slackAPI    *slack.Client
 	slackSocket *socketmode.Client
 
 	channelHistory []slack.Message
 
 	shouldUpdate bool
-	
+
 	page CSPPage
 }
 
@@ -82,6 +83,9 @@ func (app *CSPSlack) BuildStatusPage() (err error) {
 		realName := msgUser.RealName
 		var update StatusUpdate
 		update.Text = strings.Replace(message.Text, botID, "", -1)
+		fmt.Println(update.Text)
+		update.HTML = template.HTML(parseSlackMrkdwnLinks(update.Text))
+		fmt.Println(update.HTML)
 		update.SentBy = realName
 		update.TimeStamp = slackTSToHumanTime(message.Timestamp)
 		update.BackgroundClass = ""
@@ -112,6 +116,7 @@ func (app *CSPSlack) BuildStatusPage() (err error) {
 		} else {
 			app.page.updates = append(app.page.updates, update)
 		}
+
 	}
 
 	return nil
@@ -134,7 +139,7 @@ func (app *CSPSlack) Run() {
 			case socketmode.EventTypeConnected:
 				fmt.Println("Connected to Slack with Socket Mode.")
 			case socketmode.EventTypeEventsAPI:
-				e.handleEventAPIEvent()	
+				e.handleEventAPIEvent()
 			case socketmode.EventTypeInteractive:
 				e.handleInteractiveEvent()
 
@@ -237,7 +242,7 @@ func (h *CSPSlackEvtHandler) handleEventAPIEvent() {
 				log.Printf("Could not resolve channel name: %s\n", err)
 				break
 			}
-			blocks := CreateUpdateResponseMsg(channelName) 
+			blocks := CreateUpdateResponseMsg(channelName)
 			//FIXME (willnilges): Seems like slack has some kind of limitation with being unable to post ephemeral messages to threads and then
 			// broadcast them to channels. So for now this is going to be non-ephemeral.
 
@@ -261,7 +266,7 @@ func (h *CSPSlackEvtHandler) handleInteractiveEvent() {
 	callback, ok := h.evt.Data.(slack.InteractionCallback)
 	if !ok {
 		fmt.Printf("Ignored %+v\n", h.evt)
-		return	
+		return
 	}
 
 	var payload interface{}
@@ -372,4 +377,3 @@ func (h *CSPSlackEvtHandler) handleInteractiveEvent() {
 
 	h.slackSocket.Ack(*h.evt.Request, payload)
 }
-

slack_util.go

@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
+	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/slack-go/slack"
 )
 
-
 // ResolveChannelName retrieves the human-readable channel name from the channel ID.
 func (app *CSPSlack) resolveChannelName(channelID string) (string, error) {
 	info, err := app.slackSocket.GetConversationInfo(&slack.GetConversationInfoInput{
@@ -123,6 +123,24 @@ func (app *CSPSlack) clearReactions(timestamp string, focusReactions []string) e
 
 // Slack utility functions. Mostly just for data parsing. Don't actually reqire Slack
 // client, but operate on Slack resources.
+func parseSlackMrkdwnLinks(message string) string {
+	// Regular expression to match links with optional labels
+	linkRegex := regexp.MustCompile(`<([^|>]+)\|([^>]+)>|<([^>]+)>`)
+
+	// Replace links with HTML-formatted links
+	result := linkRegex.ReplaceAllStringFunc(message, func(match string) string {
+		// If the link has a label, use it as the anchor text, otherwise use the URL
+		parts := strings.Split(match[1:len(match)-1], "|")
+		if len(parts) == 2 {
+			return fmt.Sprintf(`<a href="%s">%s</a>`, parts[0], parts[1])
+		} else {
+			return fmt.Sprintf(`<a href="%s">%s</a>`, parts[0], parts[0])
+		}
+	})
+
+	return result
+}
+
 
 // Converts the timestamp from a message into a human-readable format.
 func slackTSToHumanTime(slackTimestamp string) (hrt string) {
@@ -152,7 +170,7 @@ func slackTSToHumanTime(slackTimestamp string) (hrt string) {
 }
 
 // Function to build the message the bot sends in response to being pinged with
-// a new status update. 
+// a new status update.
 func CreateUpdateResponseMsg(channelName string) (blocks []slack.Block) {
 	blocks = []slack.Block{
 		slack.NewSectionBlock(
@@ -231,4 +249,3 @@ func GetPinnedMessageStatus(reactions []slack.ItemReaction) string {
 	}
 	return ""
 }
-

templates/index.html

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ <h3 class="display-4">{{.NominalMessage}}</h3>
               {{end}}
             </div>
             <div class="col-md-8">
-              <div class="row"><span>{{.Text}}</span></div>
+              <div class="row"><span>{{.HTML}}</span></div>
               <div class="row text-secondary">
                 <em>Posted by: {{.SentBy}}</em>
               </div>
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ <h3 class="display-4">{{.NominalMessage}}</h3>
           <div class="row justify-content-around">
             <div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center"></div>
             <div class="col-md-8">
-              <div class="row"><span>{{.Text}}</span></div>
+              <div class="row"><span>{{.HTML}}</span></div>
               <div class="row text-secondary">
                 <em>Posted by: {{.SentBy}}</em>
               </div>