Maintained by Github user mandagill, Slack handle @amanda.gilmore
This is a lightweight bot created to allow Slack users to create listeners for a specific term in a given Slack channel. It uses Flask to allow the bot to be deployed on Kubernetes, which requires a healthcheck.
This bot relies on three Slack secrets and one Flack configuration variable to work. Necessary secrets to export are:
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=<found in your Slack app's configuration page>
SLACK_APP_TOKEN=<found in your Slack app's configuration page>
SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=<found in your Slack app's configuration page>
FLASK_SETTINGS=./settings.cfg
Slack token docs are here: https://api.slack.com/authentication/token-types
After starting the server with python app.py, start an ngrok proxy with ngrok 80 http. Paste the https URL in to your Slack app configuration as described in the Slack docs.
After deploying the code, you need to add the bot to the channel you'd like to listen to specific terms in. To do this, use the /invite slash command or @ mention the bot in the channel you'd like to listen in.
To keep the scope of our mocks tightly focused, I recommend testing the application logic of our bot separately from its interface into Slack. Put another way, the functions that listen for and respond to Slack events should be as lightweight as possible, and only call functions that we write. This way we can more easily test the functions without needing to mock up the Slack API.