slack-moderator-words

slack-moderator-words provides a moderation when posting some specific words, and will let the user know how to write better messages.

In Kubenetes slack, this app is usually set up as "Kubernetes Moderator Words".

Configuration

slack-moderator-words requires a configuration file, by default called config.json in the working directory. It must look like this:

{
  "signingSecret": "some_slack_signing_secret",
  "accessToken": "xoxp-some-slack-access-token-these-are-very-long-and-start-with-xo",
}

signingSecret, accessToken are all values provided by Slack when creating and installing the app. Check out the slack app creation guide for more details.

Also, requires a filter file, by default called filters.yaml in the working directory. It must look like this:

- triggers:
  - guys
  action: chat.postEphemeral
  message: "May I suggest \"all\" instead when addessing a group of people? Thank you. :slightly_smiling_face:"

Slack setup

slack-moderator-words requires the following OAuth scopes on its Slack app:

• channels:history
• channels:join
• channels:read
• chat:write
• chat:write.public

Additionally, slack-moderator-words also requires the following Workspace event subscriptions (Subscribe to events on behalf of users):

• channel_created
• message.channels

slack-moderator-words does not require any interactive components.

The slack app creation guide explains what to do with these values.

Deployment

Kubernetes runs slack-moderator-words in a Kubernetes cluster; check out the config.

slack-moderator-words can also run on Google App Engine. To do this, create a config.json file in this directory as described above and then run gcloud app deploy, using a Google Cloud Platform project that has App Engine enabled. For most Slack teams, slack-moderator should fit in the free quota.