Missing Kids in Slack

An amber alert bot that notifies your team of missing kids.

Install

Invite @missingkids to a channel with /invite @missingkids. When an Amber Alert is issued, the bot will post a notification to that channel. You can also DM it to get the latest alerts.

Commands

missing kids [number]

Get the list of the most recent missing kids. The max number is 10 and the default is 3.

API

The service provides a RESTful Hypermedia API wrapping the www.missingkids.org RSS feed. Start at the API root. The following examples retrieves a list of missing kids in Ruby with Hyperclient.

require 'hyperclient'

api = Hyperclient.new('http://www.missingkidsbot.org/api/missing_kids/')

api.missing_kids.each do |missing_kid|
  puts missing_kid.title
end

Contributing

We would love your help with a number of bugs and feature requests. See CONTRIBUTING.

Copyright & License

Copyright Daniel Doubrovkine, David Markovich and Contributors, 2016

MIT License