johnhof / skynet

A framework for slack bots

Skynet

A framework for slack bots

Getting started

• Install the latest node (--harmony is required)
• Fork skynet
• Clone Fork
• npm Install
• npm start

Adding a New Bot

• Add a new outgoing web hook configured to your liking
• Create a file/bot handler in the bot directory (we'll assume its foo.js)
• Add the bot config to your json files (make sure the name match's the name of your file)

{
  "bots" : [{
    "name"  : "foo",
    "tokens" : {
      "incoming" : "[TOKEN_FROM_HOOK]"
    }
  }]
}

• deploy
• enjoy

Keep in mind that bots are routed by the POST'ed token

Utilities

A few utilities have been added for convenience

module.exports = function *() {
  if (this.request.body.text ==='hello bot') {
    this.respond('hello human'); // sends the text as { text: text } (required for slack parsing)
  } else {
    this.error(400, 'OH NO!') // sends the error as { error: text } (ignored by slack, for testing only)
  }
}

Author

• John Hofrichter

Liscense

MIT