Welcome to Probot on Glitch

This is the Glitch equivalent of running create-probot-app to generate a new probot app locally. Updates to your code will instantly deploy and update live.

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Getting Started

To get your own Glitch-hosted Probot up-and-running, follow these steps. If you need more detail, the Probot Docs are a great place to go to learn more.

1. Configure a new app on Github.

   • Hit the "Show" button on the top left of this page to find the URL. It will look something like https://random-word.glitch.me/probot, except the domain will be specific to your app.
   • For the Webhook URL, use this URL (again, updating the domain to match yours): https://random-word.glitch.me/. Notice that we left off the /probot.
   • For the Webhook Secret, just use "development". until Step 4.
   • Save your changes.
   • On the Permissions & webhooks tab, add read and write permissions for issues.
   • On the Permissions & webhooks tab, subscribe to Issues events.
   • Save your changes.
   • On the configuration page that comes up after saving, download your private key. It will be saved into a file named my-app-name.2018-06-20.private-key.pem, with your app name, and today's date.

2. Click the Install tab, and install your app into one of your repositories.

3. Click the New File button (at left) and type .data/private-key.pem. Then click Add File. Open a terminal, and from your download folder run cat my-app-name.2018-06-20.private-key.pem | pbcopy (except using your app's name and today's date). In the new file in Glitch, paste the contents of the clipboard.

4. Edit the .env file (at left) with your app credentials.

   • APP_ID can be found in the About section of your Github app.
   • WEBHOOK_SECRET is the value you generated in Step 2.
   • PRIVATE_KEY_PATH= should be set to .data/private-key.pem.
   • NODE_ENV= should be set to production.

5. Wait for app to load. A green Live label should show up next to the Show button when it's finished loading.

6. Open a new issue in the repo where you installed your app, and watch for your app to reply!

7. Head back to our Webhook Docs to learn how to start building your app.

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