Greetings Slackers

This simple script written in basic Python will allow you to hook into the real time API of Slack and perform a greeting to every new joiner! Usually this is used to tell new joiners about the network, the guidelines, rules, useful links etc etc

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About this Fork

This fork was created for the following reasons:

Use a hardcoded WELCOME_MESSAGE.txt in code, as opposed to an environment variable.
Add the python logging module.
Bump the websocket-client package version to avoid a bug.
Add the ability to debug via a special channel that sends welcome message when joined.

Notes:

This branch, develop/archivers, auto-deploys to Heroku. We recommend submitting changes to this branch via pull request.
We use a bot user, in fact, this little guy (sign-in required).

Requirements

Python 2.7+ Edit bot.py on lines 7-8 to customise with your greeting and token

Installation

git clone <thisgitrepo>
cd <thisgitrepo>
virtualenv greetingslack
. greetingslack/bin/activate
pip install requests
pip install websocket-client
python bot.py &

Debugging

If you create a channel named #greetingslack, then the bot will send you a message every time you join it.

Heroku

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lightandluck / archivers-greetingslack