Slack Digest Bot

This bot will collect summaries about what happened in channels.

This is a great way to engage all your users. People won't feel bad because they can't miss out on stuff that happened while they were away, on vacation, or asleep.

Usage

Users have 2 ways of sending a summary to the bot:

• Use the /digest slash command

  Usage:

  /digest [summary] will use the last message in the channel and link that with the summary

  /digest [archive perma link] [summary] will use the given permalink and links that with the summary

• PM to the bot

  Usage:

  [archive perma link] [summary] will use the given permalink and links that with the summary

The bot will then collect those summaries and send them to the configured channel at the scheduled times.

Setup

Prerequisites

• Install node.js and npm.
• In your Slack, add a new Bot. We recomment calling it @digebot
  • Keep the API Token for later
  • recommended You can use digebot_2x.png as the bots logo
• recommended Make a #news channel where this bot posts its messages
• optional Under Integrations, create a new slash-command
  • Command /digest
  • URL http://your-domain:3000/slackslash
  • Keep the Token for later
  • Autocomplete help text
    • Description Adds a summary to the next digest
    • Usage hint [archives url] summary

Installing

• Download the sources and navigate into the Digebot directory.
• Install dependencies with npm install
• Copy the example config file to config.js cp config.example.js config.js
  • Edit the config file with your favorite editor. Here, you can enter the tokens from before

After that you're good to go.

Run

node main.js

License

This project is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3.0

Contributors

• @ridddle Inspiration, Design, QA, Testing
• @narrowtux Programming