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Using OpenWhisk-enabled services

In OpenWhisk, a catalog of packages gives you an easy way to enhance your app with useful capabilities, and to access external services in the ecosystem. Examples of external services that are OpenWhisk-enabled include Cloudant, The Weather Company, Slack, and GitHub.

The catalog is available as packages in the /whisk.system namespace. See Browsing packages for information about how to browse the catalog by using the command line tool.

Existing packages in catalog

Package	Description
/whisk.system/alarms	Package to create periodic triggers
/whisk.system/cloudant	Package to work with Cloudant NoSQL DB service
/whisk.system/github	Package to create webhook triggers for GitHub
/whisk.system/messaging	Package to work with Message Hub service
/whisk.system/pushnotifications	Package to work with Push Notification service
/whisk.system/slack	Package to post to the Slack APIs
/whisk.system/watson-translator	Package for text translation and language identification
/whisk.system/watson-speechToText	Package to convert speech into text
/whisk.system/watson-textToSpeech	Package to convert text into speech
/whisk.system/weather	Package to work with Weather Company Data service
/whisk.system/websocket	Package to work with a Web Socket server

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