afomi / civic-bot

a Slack bot

Dot, the (Civic) Bot

Dot is a Slack bot.

The bot currently supports the following commands connected to the [http://codeforamerica.org/api/](Code for America API).

dot
dot cfa
dot cfa:organizations
dot cfa:projects
dot cfa:events
dot cfa:stories
dot cfa:issues

Configuration

Visit https://your_slack_instance_name.slack.com/services/new/bot to create a new Slack Bot and get a SLACK_API_TOKEN.

I like to call my bot, "Dot".

Deployment

on Heroku

on Pivotal Web Services

• Copy manifest.sample.yml to manifest.yml
• Update the app name
• cf push
• cf set-health-check app-name none to turn off the health check on port 80