Finding a community can be difficult even with Google. Eventbrite is one of the first things that pop up, but you'd need to go through the events individually to find information. We wanted to create a program to give you information about multiple opportunities based on your community and location.
Opportunity bot fetches inclusive events for you based on your community, location, and times.
The user calls the Slack bot with opp search and inputs their community and location. This data is used to query our MongoDB database and sends you a private ephemeral message on Slack. None of the input data is stored for the privacy of the user.
The Slack bot sends a command to Autocode, which opens a modal for the user to input information.
The submission can be referenced with the callback_id of search-terms.
The Search button calls the view_submission handler which calls our database with your parameters.
The returned opportunities are then messaged to the user privately using a ephemeral message.
The scraping function scrapes a website with opportunities using puppeteer. These opportunities are passed into Cohere's classify and summarize models. Based on our training data, the data is sorted into communities (LGBTQIA+, Person of Color, etc.) and then written to our MongoDB database. This function would be run periodically to retrieve new events.
- We used Autocode to handle the Slack bot as it would've been much more difficult to run it locally.
- We used Axios for interacting with our MongoDB database.
- Cohere was utilized to classify and summarize the opportunities we provided it.
- Cohere API Key
- MongoDB API
- MongoDB Database
Install the project at https://autocode.com/jliang/templates/slack-bot/. You'll need to connect Slack using the longer six step method. An example App Manifest is in the Autocode folder.
You'll also need to replace the mongo variables at the top of the mdbFunctions.js file. Your MongoDB API key should be stored as an environment variable.
Clone the MongoAdding folder and install the dependencies with npm install.
You'll also need to replace the mongo variables at the top of the write.js file.
The COHERE_API_KEY and MONGO_API_KEY should be stored in a .env file in the same folder.
You should be able to do node index to run the scraper.
- See available communities and locations with the
/opp helpcommand - Open the search box with
/opp search
- James Liang
- Herve Aniglo
- Muhammad Ibrahim