dbalmain / poet-bot

A serverless natural language processing Slack bot that responds to questions regarding JIRA

Poet-bot

Project Oriented Enlightenment Tool (Poet) is a serverless natural language processing Slack bot that responds to questions regarding JIRA.

Configuration

• Clone this repository and change to that directory by running:

  git clone https://github.com/PouriaSterling/poet-bot.git
  cd poet-bot
  

• run npm install

• Create an AWS account if haven't got one already

• Install Serverless and configure your AWS credentials.

• Create your Slack app and configure its credentials as well as those for Luis and JIRA by creating a local.yml file:

   # Local variables -- DO NOT COMMIT!
  
   dev:
     slack:
       clientId: "<Your Dev Slack App Client ID>"
       clientSecret: <Your Dev Slack App Client Secret>
       botId: "<Your Dev Slack Bot ID>"
  
     luis:
       url: <Your Dev Luis Endpoint URL>
  
     jira:
       name: "<Your Dev JIRA Username>"
       password: "<Your Dev JIRA Password>"
       url: "<Your Dev JIRA Base URL>"
  
   production:
     slack:
       clientId: "<Your Production Slack App Client ID>"
       clientSecret: <Your Production Slack App Client Secret>
       botId: "<Your Production Slack Bot ID>"
  
     luis:
       url: <Your Production Luis Endpoint URL>
  
     jira:
       name: "<Your Production JIRA Username>"
       password: "<Your Production JIRA Password>"
       url: "<Your Production JIRA Base URL>"
  

  Notes:

  • 'clientid' must be quoted otherwise it is interpreted as a number.
  • Leave your 'botId' fields empty for now, we will configure them after you've created your bot.
  • Do not commit this file. It is already Git ignored.

• Deploy the server to AWS Lambda serverless deploy or a shorter form sls deploy

  Make a note of the endpoints output once it has deployed, e.g.:

   endpoints:
     GET - https://ab12cd34ef.execute-api.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/dev/install
     GET - https://ab12cd34ef.execute-api.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/dev/authorized
     POST - https://ab12cd34ef.execute-api.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/dev/receptionist
  

• Go to your Slack app and:

  • Select 'OAuth & Permissions' and in the 'Redirect URL(s)' box paste the authorized endpoint
  • Select 'Bot Users' and then 'Add a Bot User' to create a bot for your application
    • Set 'Always Show My Bot as Online' to on
  • Select 'Event Subscriptions' and:
    • Switch 'Enable Events' to on
    • in the 'Request URL' box paste the receptionist endpoint and wait for it to verify
    • Once verified, under 'Subscribe to Bot Events' select 'Add Bot User Event' and choose 'message.channels'
    • Save changes

• Navigate to your install endpoint using your browser and choose 'Add to Slack'

  • Choose your workspace in the top right
  • Authorize the application

• Go to your Slack workspace and invite the bot you just added to a desired channel

• In Slack, click on the 'More Items' button in the top right (3 vertical dots) and choose 'Workspace Directory'. Find and click on the profile of the bot you just added. Click the 'More Info' button (down-caret symbol) and 'Copy member ID'. Use this to populate the botId field of your local.yml file.

  • Note: Deleting or re-adding the bot will cause this ID to change. Update the local.yml file if you do this.

• Deploy your changes using sls deploy

• You're all set to start asking your bot about JIRA! Start by greeting the bot or asking for help.

Development

If you are making changes to only a single Lambda function and would like to deploy your changes, you can use,

sls deploy function -f <FUNCTION_NAME>

You can run a local offline version of your Lambdas using,

sls offline start

You can then send requests to localhost:3000/<FUNCTION_NAME>

Adding Functionality

To add new intent functionality, train Luis for the intent and create a new handler in the /intentHandlers folder (making sure to use the exact same name for Luis and the file). Put all your logic in that file. You can use an existing intent handler as a template to get you started.