Created a Slack bot in Python

Wrote a simple logic that slack bot will repeat the messages you sent. But if you say "flip a coin", the bot will return "Heads" or "Tails" randomly

Simple Logic

When event happens, slack sends http post requests to negork webserver (negork reroutes to our local server flask app). Then we handle the requests and send responses back.

Dependencies

pip3 install slackclient

pip3 install flask

pip3 install slackeventsapi

brew install --cask ngrok

Slack API Setup

• Event subscriptions: request URL: "http://your-ngrok-url/slack/events"
• Slash command: "http://your-ngrok-url/nessage-count"

Run

python3 bot.py

./ngrok http 5000

Gotchas

Everytime you close ngork, you should reset your URL in slack API