dcsim0n/hambone-bot

Slack Bot for the Firelabs Amateur Radio channel

The Hambone Slack Bot

Just your friendly neighborhood makerspace bot, under not so heavy development

Getting started

YOU WILL NEED AN API KEY If you want to test the code at home, feel free to clone or fork. Even deploy in your own slack channel. But please be advised that you will need your own API KEY from Slack [https://api.slack.com/]

Install Dependencies

Use yarn to install dependencies

• Run yarn install to automatically install all required packages
• Create a .env file in project directory.
• Find your slack api token
• API_TOKEN="slack api token > .env
• BOT_TOKEN="bot api token > .env

Notes on Where to go from here

HTTP API:

• Slack HTTP Events
• Python HTTP Events Module
• Ngrok HTTP Tunnel

WebSocket/RTM API:

• Slack RTM API Reference
• Slack RTM Python Reference
• Python RTM Module

Hambone Bot API:

AKA what does the bot need to do. What functions should be available externally?

• Send Alert/Notice
• Query Internal Data and send response