awaybot

A command line tool to run when you'll be out of the office for a while:

• Calculates your first day back based on the amount of your leave and the day you you start your leave
• Updates your Slack status
• Sets you away in Slack
• Sets a vacation response in Gmail
• Sends an email to your team
• Creates an event on your calendar for the duration of your leave

Set up

1. Install all dependencies

npm install
npm link

2. Authenticate your Google account

You'll need to set this up once to allow the scripts to access parts of your Gmail and Calendar accounts.

1. Open the following guide: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/nodejs
2. Follow all steps under Step 1: Turn on the Gmail API.
3. From the instructions, save client_secret.json to this directory.
4. From the console, enable Google Calendar.
5. Run node bin/auth-google.js and follow the instructions in terminal to authenticate your account.
6. In terminal, you should see the message: Success! You are connected to Gmail and Calendar.

3. Set some environment variables

You'll need to set your Slack access token for the channel where you want to update your status.

echo "export SlackAccessToken=0000ffff0000ffff0000ffff0000ffff0000ffff" >> ~/.bash_profile

You'll also need to get your Slack username in your channel. A fast way to find this is to use the users.info method tester, select the desired channel, and then click your username next to the user field. This will populate the input with the value you'll set here:

echo "export SlackUser=U00000000" >> ~/.bash_profile

4. Set your preferences in config.js

Update config.js to set information about your leave, preferences, and customize all the messages that get sent along the way.

Run npm test to validate your config file.

You're ready to get away

From terminal, run:

away