Slack URL bot

This bot is based on: https://github.com/indigotech/tqt-bot/blob/master/README.md

Bot that will read URLs posted on Slack and add them to a Swiftype engine

Configure

This bot runs using node-foreman, so to set up you local environment variables, create .env file with the following values

• SLACK_TOKEN: Token to be used to connect to Slack. Check https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot to create/get one.
• MONGOLAB_URI: The MongoDB url. It will be used to store the filters
• SWIFTYPE_TOKEN: Swiftype API token that will be used to store/delete documents on Swiftype. (Check your )

tip: You can use .env.example file as a template for the config

Running

• Tested only on node.js v0.12.0

• Execute:

$ npm install
$ npm start

Need to know

• The bot will assume that your engine document structure will be like:

{
  name: 'title'
  value: title
  type: 'string'
}
{
  name: 'description'
  value: description
  type: 'string'
}
{
  name: 'keywords'
  value: tags
  type: 'string'
}
{
  name: 'url'
  value: url
  type: 'string'
}

Needs to be done

• Search engine and document name are currently hard coded, they should be environment variables
• Change engine name and document type to match your account

Would be nice to do

• Refactor all the code
• Add URL information to Mongo database, like who posted it and date
  • Having all the info on Mongo, the bot can check if the URL was already posted
• Improve the help messages and bot commands
• Add proper tests

Future

• Check Amazon CloudSearch to replace Swiftype
• Create isolated modules so we can use on other bots projects