GoToBot

A Slack bot written in Python 3. Requires Python 3.4

Key Features

Using a mapping dictionary with callbacks to function calls:

• add quotes of your co-workers
• generate memes/gifs from various APIs
• create/vote/edit polls for your team to decide on tasks/delegation
• choose among the interns on your team who has to do a task
• bot message deletion available
• bot can private message team members
• auto-restart

Setup for gotobot.py

1. clone the repo
2. login to slack and go to https://<TEAMNAME>.slack.com/apps/build/custom-integration
3. click bots and choose a username, click add bot integration
4. make a file called token.txt in the same directory as the bot file and put the bot slack api key inside
5. make a newline delimited text file called 'EN_dict.txt' and put it into the root dir, such as one from: here to allow for distraction functionality
6. run with python3 gotobot.py

Setup for baseBot.py

1. clone the repo
2. login to slack and go to https://<TEAMNAME>.slack.com/apps/build/custom-integration
3. click bots and choose a username, click add bot integration
4. make a file called token.txt in the same directory as the bot file and put the bot slack api key inside
5. run with python3 baseBot.py

Docs and API Wrappers

• python-slackclient
• Slack API