premshree/lib-slackbot

A thin library to make writing slackbot commands super simple

lib-slackbot

lib-slackbot is a thin convenience wrapper around nlopes' excellent Slack API in Go.

When writing slack bots in Go I found myself repeating a lot of the same boilerplate. This is where lib-slackbot is useful. Currently, lib-slackbot is useful whenever you want to write a bot that listens to commands with optional arguments like so:

?weather 11231
?oncall

See the examples directory for an implementation.

Installation

$ go get github.com/premshree/lib-slackbot

Example

package main

import(
  "time"

  "github.com/premshree/lib-slackbot"
)

func main() {
  token := "YOUR_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN"
  bot := slackbot.New(token)

  bot.AddCommand("?time", "What's the local time?", func(bot *slackbot.Bot, channelID string, channelName string, args ...string) {
    t := time.Now()
    bot.Reply(channelID, t.Format("Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 2006"))
  })

  // Run starts the bot's listen loop
  bot.Run()
}