slack-rabbit

README

slack-rabbit

Simple sample of a Slack bot using go and rabbitMQ.

How to create your Bot app

1. Create an app: https://api.slack.com/apps

2. Fill App-name and workspace.

3. Select Event Subscriptions and enable it.

4. Provide your app URL at Request URL. (FQDN with the valid certificate)

5. Validate URL ... Missing some steps and screen-shots ...

6. Fill .env file to feed your docker-compose topology

7. Deploy your host topology docker-compose

Current server is a simple echo bot, that anything you send to the bot will be sent back to you. Internally, it is more than that. This sample allow you to receive events from slack, they are all sent to a rabbitMQ queue, then you can process it, send to another rabbitMQ queue an the writer will send this messages to slack.

Sample .env

BOT_USER_ID=UXXXXXXXXX
SLACK_TOKEN=xxxx-111111111111-111111111111-XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx
QUEUE_HOSTNAME=queuem
QUEUE_USER=guest
QUEUE_PASSWORD=guest
PUBLIC_DOMAIN=yoursite.com

Run Slack-Rabbit

git clone git@github.com:6za/slack-rabbit.git
cd slack-rabbit
export BASE_DIR=$PWD
./build.sh
docker-compose up

Reference:

Subscribe to events:

• https://api.slack.com/events-api#events_api_request_urls