/slackbot-workout

A fun hack that gets Slackbot to force your teammates to work out!

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slackbot-workout

A fun hack that gets Slackbot to force your teammates to work out!

Instructions

  1. Clone the repo and navigate into the directory in your terminal.

    $ git clone git@github.com:brandonshin/slackbot-workout.git

  2. Go to your slack home page https://{yourgroup}.slack.com/home & click on Integrations on the left sidebar.

  3. Scroll All the Way Down until you see Slack API and Slackbot. You'll need to access these two integrations.

  4. In the Slack API Page, select WebAPI in the left side bar, scroll all the way down, and register yourself an auth token. You should see this. Take note of the token, e.g. xoxp-2751727432-4028172038-5281317294-3c46b1. This is your User Auth Token

  5. In the Slackbot (Remote control page). Register an integration & you should see this. Make sure you grab just the token out of the url, e.g. AizJbQ24l38ai4DlQD9yFELb

  6. Save your SLACK_USER_TOKEN_STRING and SLACK_URL_TOKEN_STRING as environmental variables in your terminal.

    $ export SLACK_USER_TOKEN_STRING=YOURUSERTOKEN

    $ export SLACK_URL_TOKEN_STRING=YOURURLTOKEN

    If you need help with this, try adapting the first 5 steps of the guide to edit your .bash_profile

  7. Set up channel and customize configurations

    Open default.json and set teamDomain (ex: ctrlla) channelName (ex: general) and channelId (ex: B22D35YMS). Save the file as config.json in the same directory. Set any other configurations as you like.

    If you don't know the channel Id, fetch it using

    $ python fetchChannelId.py channelname

  8. If you haven't set up pip for python, go in your terminal and run. $ sudo easy_install pip

  9. While in the project directory, run

    $ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

    $ python slackbotExercise.py

Run the script to start the workouts and hit ctrl+c to stop the script. Hope you have fun with it!