Introduction

The sole purpose of this project is for my own amusement. This is a Slack bot written in golang that performs various brilliantly useless functions.

• Slash commands
  • /mark [your message] - echos your message except rAndoMLY cApitALizInG characters
  • /score [word++|word--|top] - tracks the score for something, anything
• RTM responses
  • any images sent to a private / public channel (excluding DMs) will be saved into the corresponding folder in Google Drive

Getting Started

1. Clone this repository.

2. Create an environment file .env and add your Slack API configs. See the official Slack guide on create a Slack App and retrieve these values!

   SLACK_OAUTH_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   SLACK_VERIFICATION_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   

3. Create an etc subdirectory and copy the Google Drive API configs including credentials.json and token.json. See the official Google Drive guide on how to enable the Google Drive API on your account and generate these credential files!

4. Your project directory should now look similarly:

   pikabot/
     data/
     entry/
     etc/
       credentials.json
       token.json
     .env
     ...
   

5. Run docker-compose build and docker-compose up -d to start it up! Some additional helpful scripts are in scripts/ if you want to use Let's Encrypt, Nginx, and AWS EC2 together.

References

This was a really helpful reference when getting started with uploading files to Google Drive.

https://medium.com/@devtud/upload-files-in-google-drive-with-golang-and-google-drive-api-d686fb62f884