Interview Bot

Development should be done with any modern distro of Linux. Support for Windows is not tested and should be done at your own risk.

Interview Bot is a simple slack bot that deals with (re?)scheduling appointments. Jira webhooks are fed to a simple backend flask server. This bot then works in liaison with slack users to manage the scheduling data.

Dependencies for Python development are included in the requirements.txt file

Development Environment

Install docker (Docker Engine): https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install \ ca-certificates \ curl \ gnupg \ lsb-release
3. sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
4. curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
5. echo \ "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \ $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
6. sudo apt-get update
7. sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin
8. sudo docker run hello-world

Install git: https://github.com/git-guides/install-git

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install git-all

Install ngrok: https://ngrok.com/download

1. snap install ngrok

Setting up the repo:

1. git clone https://github.com/SI-Interview-Bot/BotApp.git

Testing:

To test your bot you will need to redirect localhost to a forwarding url that is visable to slack. ngrok is a simple way to accomplish this.

• Once installed, visit ngrok.com, create an account, and go to Setup & Installation. From step 2, copy and paste the command to add your authorization token. It should look something like this: ngrok config add-authtoken 2GfobMBf*&^785V876b887n87^*%%^%^bfg8b66UYJYYF^67

The bot is hosted on port 3000 by default. To start the session, simply run the following:

• In a new terminal window run, ngrok http 3000

You should see the following

Session Status                online                                           
Session Expires               1 hour, 58 minutes                               
Terms of Service              https://ngrok.com/tos                            
Version                       3.1.0                                            
Region                        United States (us)                               
Latency                       168ms                                            
Web Interface                 http://127.0.0.1:4041                            
Forwarding                    https://fbb7-12-147-112-74.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:3000
                                                                               
Connections                   ttl     opn     rt1     rt5     p50     p90      
                              0       0       0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  

The Forwarding address will need to be added to the Slack Workspace.

Slack App Workspace

• Copy ngrok's forwarding address to your app settings in api.slack.com In your app's settings, go to Slash Commands. For every Slash Command update the Request URL with ngrok's forwarding address. The forwarding address will likely change with every new running instance of ngrok. Manually add /slack/events at the end of the forwarding address.

• You must also update your app's Event Subscriptions