Crossword Time Tracking Bot

The CW slack bot is designed to track daily(ish) scores for multiple people.

Running it:

Once you have a slack API token, fill out the two two variables in this short bash script:

export SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-....
export SLACK_SAVE_FILE=/tmp/save.json

python3 cwbot.py

Using It

Within slack you can type @cwbot (or whatever you named yours) with the following commands:

time       Add todays' time to your running score
scores     Display the scores to date
entries    List each recorded entry (for you)

help       Get help (this message)
echo       Repeat back whatever I say
whoami     print out information about me

Example

@cwbot time 1:39
Added a time for you of 99 seconds

@cwbot time 1:51
Added a time for you of 111 seconds

...

@cwbot scores
Name                           Cnt    Average
Wes Hardaker                     5    02:53
Someone Else                     1    00:55

(clearly, "someone else" is better at crossword puzzles than I am)

TODO

• allow recording a time for a past date

Background software

This bot is based off my adaption of the slack starter bot.