karmabot
Karmabot is a bot for upvoting and downvoting people in your Slack room. It's built on the Hubot framework for use with Slack.
Getting Started
Testing your bot locally
HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN=xoxb-1234-5678-91011-00e4dd ./bin/hubot --adapter slack
Deploying to Heroku
This is a modified set of instructions based on the Slack hubot-slack repo
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Install heroku toolbelt if you haven't already.
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heroku create my-company-slackbot -
heroku addons:add redistogo:nano -
Activate the Hubot service on your "Team Services" page inside Slack.
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Add the config variables:
% heroku config:add HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN=xoxb-1234-5678-91011-00e4dd % heroku config:add HUBOT_SLACK_BOTNAME=karmabot % heroku config:set HUBOT_HEROKU_KEEPALIVE_URL=$(heroku apps:info -s | grep web_url | cut -d = -f2) -
Deploy and start the bot:
% git push heroku master -
Profit!
Configuration
This adapter uses the following environment variables:
HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN- this is the API token for the Slack user you would like to run Hubot under.HUBOT_SLACK_BOTNAME- this is only for the karmabot leaderboard, it was required for earlier Slack Hubot integrations.HUBOT_HEROKU_KEEPALIVE_URL- keepalive
To add or remove your bot from specific channels or private groups, you can use the /kick and /invite slash commands that are built into Slack.
Copyright
Copyright © Slack Technologies, Inc. MIT License; see LICENSE for further details.