SlackBot

A weather bot app for slack that reports the weather in real-time for any city.

Built With

• Ruby

Getting Started

To test the bot in your local environment you will have to follow the next steps

• You must have a slack account
• Make a new workspace
• Go to the Slack app directory and into Custom Integrations to make a Bot user for your workspace or use this link https://slack.com/services/new/bot (The app works with classic bots only so make sure you create the bot from here)
• Add the bot to a channel
• The bot also uses the OpenWeatherMap API. To take a token for that, simply go to https://openweathermap.org/api and subscribe for the Current Weather Data, make an account and take your token (note that the token might take a few minutes to activate)
• git clone git@github.com:patrick-angelos/SlackBot.git
• cd SlackBot
• Create a .env file on the root directory where you will store your tokens, like so
• SLACK_API_TOKEN=xoxb-...
• WEATHER_TOKEN=1234...
• run bundle install
• run ruby bin/main.rb
• Your WeatherBot is ready to go

Commands

To Bot accepts the following commands

• help: for a description of the commands
• hi: Replies with Hello
• weather "city": reports the weather in the specified city
• detailed "city": for a more detailed weather report in the specified city

Remember that the bot will reply only when tagged. For example @WeatherBot weather Athens will give you a weather report for Athens

Author

👤 Patrikis Angelos

• GitHub: @patrick-angelos
• Twitter: @AngelosPatrikis
• LinkedIn: Angelos Patrikis

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!

Acknowledgments

• To Microverse for their README template.
• To Slack for their awesome documentation
• To OpenWeatherMap.org for their API
• To dblock for his slack-ruby-bot gem

📝 License

MIT License