/murfbot

Amuse your friends with a fun and stupid Slack chat bot.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Murfbot

Murfbot is a Slackbot I wrote for the Slack channel I share with my friends. It does fun and stupid things.

Installation

  1. Have Node.js installed.

  2. Clone this repo.

git clone https://github.com/wnmurphy/murfbot.git
  1. Install dependencies with npm.
cd murfbot

npm install

  1. Get a Slack API key.

  2. Open murfbot.js and replace "REPLACE_STRING_WITH_YOUR_SLACK_API_TOKEN" with your Slack API key.

Running Murfbot

You'll need to leave Murfbot running in the background. When the process terminates, Murfbot will go offline.

Open a new Terminal tab, and run

node murfbot.js

You can also make murfbot.js an executable, since the file contains

#! /usr/local/bin/node

To do this, add executable permissions to murfbot.js with

chmod +x murfbot.js

Then run with

./murfbot.js

Your Slack API key tells Murfbot which team to join. As long as Murfbot is running, you should see him as an active user on your Slack team.

Murfbot Commands

Screenshot of Murfbot help response

Murfbot currently responds with inside jokes to names of friends, drops a random Meshuggah music video on mentions of 'meshuggah', chastises you if you're a potty mouth, tells you about his uptime on 'stats' direct mentions, and lists these commands on 'help' direct mentions.