eveslackkills

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eveslackkills

eveslackkills fetches kill- and loss-mails for a given corporation and posts them to a specified killboard-channel in Slack. eveslackkills uses the EVE CREST to retrieve information about ships and solar systems, so no manual SDE data updates have to be performed anymore.

Requirements

• Slack
• MySQL server
• Go 1.2 or newer to compile application (latest recommended)

Instructions

• Create a new "Incoming WebHooks" integration in Slack (https://YOURNAME.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook)
  • Fill in channel/username as required
  • Copy generated web hook URL for later use config
• Clone the GitHub project and build the Go application
  • Use "go get -u ./..." to fetch all requirements
  • Build the app using "go build -v ./..."
  • You will only need the generated executable, no additional files as cloned from the repository
• Create the MySQL database required for the application
  • Use the script provided in database/mysql/eveslackkills_create.sql to create the database/tables required
  • Set up a username/password for the application to access the database
• Create a config file "config.cfg" using JSON format

	"DatabaseType": 1,
	"DatabaseHost": "HOSTNAME:PORT",
	"DatabaseSchema": "MYSQLDATABASE",
	"DatabaseUser": "MYSQLUSER",
	"DatabasePassword": "MYSQLPASSWORD",
	"DebugLevel": 1,
	"SlackWebhookURL": "SLACKHOOKURL"
}```

- Run the application and use a monitoring service such as supervisord to restart it automatically if required

Copyright
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License
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eveslackkills code and documentation are copyright 2015 by [MorpheusXAUT](https://github.com/MorpheusXAUT). The application is released under the GNU [GPLv3 license](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).