allie

allie is a welcome bot written for Slack teams in Python 3.

NOTE: I am no longer using this bot. Check Ares instead.

Features

• Sends a private message to newly joined team member
• And then sends acknowledgement message to all admins that a new member has been joined

Installation

System Requirements

• Python 3 (should work on Python 2 as well, but not tested)

Python Requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Instructions

• Change template.txt as per your requirements. Make sure the channel and user IDs are correct.
• Create a new bot from Custom Integrations (URL is https://teamname.slack.com/apps/build/custom-integration) and keep the API token somewhere safe.
• Rename sample_settings.py to settings.py and update API Token in the file.
• Run python3 bot.py
• Bonus: use supervisor.conf to manage the process.

To do

• Better log messages
• Better error handling

Name

The name Allie comes from the book The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, where protagonist's name is Allie Nelson.

License

The mighty MIT license. Please check LICENSE for more details.