brandongregoryscott/pinbot

A slack bot designed to share messages that are pinned, which was removed in a recent Slack client update.

Pinbot

Pinbot is a Slack bot that re-shares messages when they are pinned, which was a feature that was removed in November 2016. It also provides some additional commands around pins, such as the random pin.

Tech

• Botkit
• Botbuilder Adapter Slack
• Slack Block Builder

Running Locally

To run pinbot locally, you'll need to make sure you have Ngrok installed (brew install ngrok), and you'll likely want to set up a "Development" app so the production app can continue running with separate credentials.

First, set up your .env file:

cp .env.sample .env

Visit the App Credentials page https://api.slack.com/apps/{appId}/general and fill in the required values:

# Terminal #1
npm run watch

# Terminal #2
npm run dev

# Terminal #3
ngrok http 3000

Once you have an Ngrok tunnel set up, you'll need to edit the webhook URL that Slack posts messages to.

Visit the Event Subscriptions page https://api.slack.com/apps/{appId}/event-subscriptions and edit the Request URL.

It should look something like this: https://6edf-98-49-236-176.ngrok-free.app/api/messages, and Slack will send a request to verify the URL is listening.

Deployment

Pinbot is currently deployed on Render.