Greetings! this is a Flask application that is hooked up to slack events api. It sends a welcome message to the user that has just joined channels that this slackbot is configured to react to.
This Flask application is using python3, since python2.7 will be retiring soon!!!
#clone this repo
git clone <thisgitrepo>
cd <thisgitrepo>
# make sure you have virtualenv installed
virtualenv venv
# activate your virtualenv
source venv/bin/activate
# Install requirementst
pip install -r requirements.txt
Once the installation is done, can run the application locally.
export FLASK_APP=app.py
export FLASK_DEBUG=1
# Export the environ variables needed for sending chat messages
export SLACK_BOT_OAUTH_TOKEN='YOU_BOT_TOKEN_FROM_SLACK'
export SLACK_BOT_USERNAME='YOUR SLACKBOT USERNAME'
export CHANNEL_IDS='COMMA_SEPARATED_LIST_OF_CHANNEL_IDS'
# run the Flask app
python -m flask run
To test with the Slack API from your local development environment, would suggest ngrok to tunnel the flask app running on the machine's port.
We use Heroku for hosting the chatbot service.
The master branch is setup to auto deploy to heroku whenever changes are pushed into the master branch. The master branch is a protected branch, changes can only be submitting through pull requests and requires reviews before merging. See our CONTRIBUTING for
The chatbot service lives at: https://ctto-greetingbot.herokuapp.com
Please see our contributing guidelines.
See LICENSE