News Bot: A Slack Plugin

News Bot is a Slack app that automatically sends a Slack message containing links to the top news headlines for the day according to CNN. The message is sent out every morning at 9 am to the workspace's General channel. This is achieved by setting up a Cron Job that ensures data is fetched from CNN's API, parsed accordingly, and sent to Slack every 24 hours.

Built With

• Node.js
• Slack API

Folder Structure

Folder Structure:

├── controllers                                 
        ├── message_controller                 # Parses API response and creates message object
├── services                                     
        ├── request_controller                 # Fetches data from CNN API
├── app.js                                     # App entry point       
├── main.js                                    # Main function call
├── package.json
└── README.md

Deployment

The application is hosted on Heroku. There is no front-end portion to this application, however this ensures the Cron Job is running and the application will fetch and send data periodically.

Authors

Saurav Saha, Ahmed Abdelmoneim, Seif Ghazi