CS50 Quote Bot

Created by Anthony Bau, Annie Chen, and Brian Yu at CS50's Hackathon 7/14/16

This bot maintains a quote list that is queried through Slack.

Add a quote via:

/quotelist add NAME QUOTE

where NAME is the person who said the quote, and QUOTE is the quote.

Find a quote via:

/quotelist NAME

A random quote in the database by NAME will be returned in Slack. If no quotes match the query, the quote bot will tell you that the person has no quotes.

Install Into Your Own Slack Channel!

NOTE: I learned to create my first slackbot via Andrew Mager's How to Write a Slackbot in 40 lines of code, and so a lot of the infrastructure is taken from that tutorial.

Steps

Obviously these will be fleshed out further, likely in a blog post, but general outline for now.

open a nodeJS Cloud9 workspace
- with this repo cloned
Set up Mlabs Account
Set up a Heroku instance
Connect the instance with this repo and push
- set up environmental variable on heroku for MONGO_URL
Set up connection on Slack integration
Refresh slack and try it out

Now Make it Your Own!

heroku logs -t
console.log
when changing features and repushing to Heroku
- git status
- git add <filename>
- git push heroku master
  - should see build succeeded message

Known bugs/"features"/TODOS

/quotelist add will return an error
No way to modify quotes once entered
No way to attribute quotes to a name with a space in it. i.e /quotelist add Dan A "This is my quote" will enter A "This is my quote." into the database under Dan.
No way to attribute a quote to two or people at once
Perhaps an error with when quotation marks show up in database vs Slack channel?

annieechen / QuoteBot