slack-lens
Slack-lens is leiningen project written in clojure.Slack-lens is for listening, storaging and retrieving the message so that the messages could still be found after 10,000 messages limit on slack. Slack-lens use the slack-rtm API to listen to every event that is triggered on the slack. Slack-lens listens to these and filters the events with type = message, then these are stored in elastic-search database.
A web interface is also implemented for viewing the messages .
SetUp
sudo apt-get install vagrant
vagrant up
Alternate Manually setup
Installing Leiningen
Run this script to self install the leiningen package.
Install the elasticsearch
wget https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.7.2.deb
sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-1.7.2.deb
Running
For listening to the slack-rtm API
lein run -m in.co.sdslabs.slack-lens.listener.run -t "Your Token"
To start a web server for slack-lens on localhost, run:
lein ring server-headless [port]
By default, the server uses port 40000. To query the service, run:
curl -X GET http://localhost:40000
API Documentation
Swagger spec and documentation is available at http//localhost:40000 that describes the endpoints.