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The Stack Exchange chat network does not provide an official API. This package aims to bridge that gap for Go applications by providing a simple interface with native Go primitives (channels, etc.).

As go-sechat grows, more and more chat functionality is exposed through the package. Here's a list of just some of the things go-sechat can do:

• Run completely headless with no UI or embedded browser
• Login using Stack Exchange credentials
• Maintain a persistent connection to the chat server; reauthenticating, pausing, and reconnecting when a failure occurs
• Join, create, leave, and invite users to rooms
• Perform basic chat activities, such as posting and starring messages
• Receive a stream of all events from rooms that have been joined
• Intelligently retry failed messages when throttling occurs
• Upload images to i.stack.imgur.com

To use the package in an application, simply import it:

import "github.com/nathan-osman/go-sechat"

Examples are provided in the package documentation.