connect to Slack API

gistfile1.rs

//Cargo.toml:

[package]
name = "rustbot"
version = "0.1.0"
authors = ["wafuqua"]

[dependencies]
websocket = "~0.11.11"
hyper = "0.5.0"
serde = "0.4.0"

//main.rs:

extern crate hyper;
use hyper::Client;
use std::io::Read;

fn main() {
    let token = "<my-slack-api-token>";
    let url = "https://slack.com/api/rtm.start?token=".to_string() + token;

    let mut http = Client::new();

    let mut response = http.get(&url).send().unwrap();
    let mut body = String::new();
    response.read_to_string(&mut body).unwrap();

    println!("body {}", body);
}