This is a quick and dirty Slack Bot experiment using BotMan and the DarkSky API.
Sending a string using an International Air Transport Association or IATA code will return that locations weather conditions using the DarkSky API.
The string or phrase like Whats the weather in yeg, or /weather in Edmonton will return a formatted string.
"Right now it's -12.54c and Light Snow ❄️ in Edmonton."
- Running Laravel 5.7
- Memcached
To get up and running quickly I recommend using Ngrok which will allow you to proxy your local connection externally.
For the weather you will need to create an API key over at Dark Sky.
Create a new Database, add your credentials to the .env file along with your Darksky API Key.
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=token
FORECAST_API=key
Next run composer install, artisan migrate to setup the Database.
Our data will come from a json file containing all of the airport codes which will give us the city names as well as the lat log locations that will be used for the weather API call.
Next run artisan weather:import.
To use the bot with Slack you will have to register a new Bot.
Name your App and choose your Development workspace.
Slash Command
Under Features add a Slash Command add /weather and for the quest URL use you Ngrok url (https://random.ngrok.io/botman)
Event Subscriptions In order for Slack to send our bot any information we need to subscribe to some specific actions.
Add message.channels, message.im, again we need to add the bot URL (https://random.ngrok.io/botman)
Bot Users
Under Bot Users click Add Bot User.
Authentication
Under OAuth & Permissions then Scopes add the following:
CONVERSATIONS
- channels:history
- channels:read
- channels:write
- chat:write:bot
- groups:history
- im:history
INTERACTIVITY
- bot
- commands
Then Install App to Workspace authorize the bot with your workspace and add the Bot User OAuth Access Token to your .env file.