Antibot

Introduction

This is a python framework to create slack bots.

It abstract most of the boilerplate code to interact with slack and encapsulate slack json data in nice native classes.

How to run

You need to create a new app on https://api.slack.com/apps. You need to activate interactive components, slash commands provide at least the following permissions to the bot :

• users:read
• users:read.email
• files:write

You also need a way for slack to contact you server. In development you can use http://localhost.run/ although you will need to reconfigure interactive components and slash commands regularly.

You also need a virtualenv where you will install antibot and all of your plugins.

The following environment variables are mandatory for antibot to run :

• SLACK_BOT_USER_TOKEN : can be found under Bot User OAuth Access Token in OAuth & Permissions page
• SIGNING_SECRET : can be found in the Basic Information page
• WS_API_KEY : is a random secret of you choice to call non-slack related api on your bot
• MONGO_URI : an accessible mongo instance
• DEV=true while in development

How to create a plugin

Use cookiecutter on https://github.com/JGiard/Antibot-plugins-template

Coding

There is lot of stuff you can do, check the other projects for examples.

Use @command("/myplugin/route") to react to slash command (don't forget to create the correspond command in slack).

Always use the block api from antibot.slack.messages when creating messages.

Use @block_action(action_id="...") to react to interactive components on messages.

Use @ws("/myplugin/route) to create a raw endpoint.