slack-gis

Searches Google Images for Slack.

Running it yourself on Linux or Mac (probably the same for Windows, but I haven't tried it)

• Install Node.

• Run these commands to clone the repo and install its dependencies.

    git clone git@github.com:jimkang/slack-gis.git
    cd slack-gis
    npm install
  

• Over in Slack, add an Outgoing Webhook that points to your server at the port specified by webhookPort in config.js.

• Create a config.js file in the slack-gis with these contents:

  module.exports = { webhookPort: 7778, validWebhookTokens: [ 'your Slack webhook token' ] };

• Copy the generated token by the webhook page into the validWebhookTokens array in config.js.

• Start the server by running make start, and it will be ready to serve Google Image search results to Slack!

Having me running it for you

If you want, I can try running GIS for your Slack. Just set up the webhook as described above and send me the token. I can't make guarantees about performance, however. (I think it should be fine, but my GIS webhook lives on a tiny VPS instance with 22 other bots and API servers.)

Usage

Once set up, you can type <your trigger word> cats in a channel, and an image search result will show up!

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Jim Kang

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