I know, most of these include unicode characters. Deal with it (⌐■_■)
Open a slack channel and write /ascii help
(or just /ascii
). You will get a list of all possible emojis, e.g.
Use one of these names to post an asciimoji
shrug: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
zoidberg: (\/)(°,,,°)(\/)
sunglasses: (⌐■_■)
(...)
Pick one you like or that fits the current situation, e.g. shrug
. Then write /ascii shrug
, and the Slasciimoji Bot
will post an emoji in your name.
Go to the Slack API page and create a new Application for you team.
Create a Verification Token
.
Go to the OAuth & Permissions
menu and create an OAuth Access Token
. Add following permissions to the token:
- chat:write:user
- users:read
Create a .env
file in the root dir of this application with the content
SLACK_SLASH_COMMAND_TOKEN=your_verification_token
SLACK_TOKEN_OAUTH=your_oauth_token
Use the provided Dockerfile to create a Docker-Container and deploy it to the platform of your least distrust.
Got to the Menu Slash Commands
and create a Slash Command called /ascii
.
Write the URL under which your application instance can be accessed into Request URL
.
Write a short description
, e.g. Post an ascii / unicode emoji
. Write an usage hint
like [help|emoji name]