FilmyBot

A Slack bot for getting movie information while communicating using Slack

Tools

• Python 2 or 3
• pip and virtualenv
• The Python slackclient
• A Slack account with an API token

Setting up the environment

First, fork the main repo. Then clone the forked repository on your local machine

git clone https://github.com/YourName/FilmyBot.git

Navigate to the directory and create a new virtual environment

virtualenv botvenv

Activate the virtual environment

source botvenv/bin/activate

Then install the Python slackclient library with the pip command

sudo pip install slackclient

The next step is to create a bot user for our Slack team and obtain the API access token.

Create a new bot user by following the create a new bot user instructions on the Bot Users pages

Copy the bot API access token and export is an environment variable named SLACK_BOT_TOKEN

    export SLACK_BOT_TOKEN='your Slack API token'

Getting the bot ID

Run the get_botid.py script to get the bot ID. In the script, change the value of 'BOT_NAME' to the name of the bot that you created.

python get_botid.py

The id returned by this script is your bot ID which you'll be using in the filmyBot.py script to start the Slack bot.

Running Filmybot in your Slack channel

After setting the bot id in the filmyBot.py script, run the following

    python filmyBot.py

Invite the Filmybot in your Slack channel

Run the Filmybot as follows