slackbot_events_api_example

Basic example of how to build a slack bot using the events API.

Main Features

Reply to certain message when it is posted to a slack channel with the bots handle mentioned.

Explanation of Files

slackbot_events_api_example.py: Source code for the slack bot.
configs.json: Configuration file.

How to Configure the slackbot_events_api_example

In order for this slack bot to work it will need a few keys to authenticate to slack, the contents of the config file as well as what they are can be found below.

{
  "slack_bot_token":"",
  "slack_signing_secret":""
}

slack_bot_token: This is the token of the bot user configured in slack
slack_signing_secret: This is the signing secret that the bot will use to authenticate to the channel sent by the events subscription.

** can also store in local environment

Would need to do something like... In terminal: export SLACK_API_TOKEN="..." export SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET="..."

In python file: call values by using... os.environ['SLACK_API_TOKEN']/ os.environ['SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET']

How to Run

Create an application in slack
Enable OAuth for the bot
Grant the bot user scopes (need char:write:bot, message.channels)
Enable event subscriptions
Copy the slack bot token and the slack signing secret to the configs.json file
In terminal session a, launch ngrok

In terminal session b, launch the slack bot

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 slackbot_events_api_example.py