aisutd / birthday-bot

AIS Birthday Bot

Birthday bot that reads names & dates from a google sheet & posts birthday messages to a slack channel.

Local Development

Download service account credentials from Google Cloud Console.

• Open Membership-Portal project in Google Cloud
• Navigate to IAM & Admin > Service Accounts
• Open birthday-bot service account
• Open Keys tab, select Add Key & click Create New Key
• Create a JSON key and download it

Set environment variables

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/birthday-bot-credentials.json
export BIRTHDAY_SPREADSHEET_ID=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/BIRTHDAY_SPREADSHEET_ID
export SLACK_CHANNEL_ID=birthday-bot-channel-id

Build and run

npm run build
npm start

Questions

Reach out to Harsha Srikara for any questions.