Standup bot does not recognize /standup sent through the API

[Rob Davis]

Due to the lack of support for automatically exporting standup info, I am trying to write a script to input the message /standup and retrieve the response through the room history in our development rooms. However, /standup does not trigger the standup bot's response when sent through the api. Looking in the history, I suspect it has to do with the user_id being "api" rather than a registered value (2043224 or something like it). We really want to automate the standup reporting and this is holding us up. Please address this or identify a workaround if possible.