Lunchly

Slack bot that announces daily catered meals

Lunchly is a Slack bot that posts daily meal announcements for companies with scheduled meal catering. Using Skills, Listeners, and Actions, Lunchly can be extended to support different vendors and interactions. It comes with built-in ZeroCater support.

Requirements

Lunchly runs on Node 8.3+ and uses Slack's Real Time Messaging API and Web API clients. ZeroCater integration is provided via the @lunchly/service-zerocater plugin.

Install

To get started, clone this repository and install dependencies using npm.

# Get the code
git clone https://github.com/lunchly/slack-bot.git

# Install dependencies
npm install

Configuration

Lunchly configuration is kept inside of a /sites.json file in the project room. This file defines a list of channels to monitor and their associated ZeroCater account IDs.

Your ZeroCater account ID can be found in the URL of your account's meal page.

Copy sites.example.json to sites.json and replace with your values.
If you don't already have one, create a new bot user for your Slack team. You'll need the bot token (begins with xoxb-) to run Lunchly.

Run

To run Lunchly, ensure the configuration steps above are completed, and do the following:

Development

SLACK_BOT_API_TOKEN=xoxb-0000-your-token MIXPANEL_TOKEN=000 LOG_LEVEL=debug npm run dev

Production

SLACK_BOT_API_TOKEN=xoxb-0000-your-token MIXPANEL_TOKEN=000 npm run start

Use

Lunchly listens for interactions in all channels it is a member of. If a meal is found for that day then the bot will post a message containing details about the meal.

Triggers*: !lunch, lunch is here, what's for lunch, what is for lunch, what is today's lunch, what's for lunch

Apostrophe optional. Case insensitive.

lunchly/slack-bot