How can I make it so that slack bots can use Giphy?
<p>For some reason, the existing Giphy app for slack does not allow bots to call a GIF from giphy.com</p>

<p>If I type "/Giphy sad", the Giphy app will automatically load a sad GIF of somekind from Giphy.com</p>

<p>But if my slackbot does it, or my hubot, or my twitterbot, or any bot that I create, even if the text is identical, it won't work. I'm assuming this is because giphy intentionally excluded bots from being able to call the command? Or is it that bots can't call commands in general?</p>

<p>So in addition to this general question, my specific coding question is: what would be the best way to make it so that a slack app or a bot can call a GIF from Giphy? </p>

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<p>additional info you may not need:
-I'm creating this so that we can pull "moods" off of Twitter account into a slack channel and have a bunch of GIFs show up in that slack channel that represent the mood of the tweets. 
-I've been using Node-Red to do some of this
-I've tried using the built in twitter app for slack, no dice</p>