ResponderBot is an auto-responding Slack bot created using the Bolt library, and capable of regex-matching messages in channels. Created in response to a particular person suggesting that people didn't know how to use regex with SlackBot (which doesn't support regex in the first place).
Set up a Slack app, instructions here. The scopes you will need for the app are:
channels:historychat:writechat:write.customize
Enable Event Subscriptions for your app, and add the following bot event subscriptions:
message.channels
It's recommended to run the script in a Docker container behind a Traefik instance with LetsEncrypt certs. How to set this up is outside the scope of this README (but not hard to do).
Note: the app needs to be explicitly added to a channel in order for it to receive messages from that channel.
Edit responderbot.py to respond to messages with responses of your choosing. A couple of examples are pre-written in the repo version of the script, and more examples can be found here.
cd /path/to/responderbot
docker build --tag responderbot .
docker run \
--detach \
--env "SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=<your Slack bot token here>" \
--env "SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=<your Slack signing secret here>" \
--env "PORT=<pick a port, defaults to 3000>" \
--label "<Traefik-related labels>" \
responderbotPull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.