Your First Slack Bot Service@dblockdotorg

http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Slack-Meetup/ March 10, 2016

dB.

there’s a bottleneck in the db query the db is down

did you set the correct db credentials? mongo db

Q?deferred?

reject?accept?

Integration Overview

Web APIReal Time Messaging APISlack Platform Services

ClientsFrameworks

Integrations

Incoming Webhooka way to send (but not receive) messages to Slack Outgoing Webhooka way to receive messages from Slack based on keyword or phrase Slash Commanda way to add /slash commands to Slack Slack Web APIa full set of JSON API tools to deal with Slack Real Time API24/7 live integration with a Slack team Slack Platform and Slack Buttona way to build Slack applications for multiple teams

/Launch Platform

Slack App

web apppublished in slack app directory has a slack button that redirects to slack slack returns a token app stores the token

service with multiple botsstart a bot per token

Codehttps://github.com/dblock/your-first-slack-ruby-bot-in-ruby

Incoming Webhooka way to send (but not receive) messages to Slack Outgoing Webhooka way to receive messages from Slack based on keyword or phrase Slash Commanda way to add /slash commands to Slack Slack Web APIa full set of JSON API tools to deal with Slack Real Time API24/7 live integration with a Slack team Slack Platform and Slack Buttona way to build Slack applications for multiple teams

Clientshttps://api.slack.com/community

https://github.com/slackhq/node-slack-client Slack-Node-Client

var client = require('../lib/clients/web/client'); client.chat.postMessage(‘#general’, ‘Hello World', data, …);

client = Slack::Web::Client.new(token: token) client.chat_postMessage(channel: '#general', text: 'Hello World’)

https://github.com/dblock/slack-ruby-client Slack-Ruby-Client

https://github.com/slackhq/node-slack-client Slack-Node-Client

var client = require(‘@slack/client').RtmClient; var rtm = new RtmClient(token, {logLevel: 'debug'}); rtm.start();

var RTM_EVENTS = require('@slack/client').RTM_EVENTS;

rtm.on(RTM_EVENTS.MESSAGE, function (message) { … });

client = Slack::RealTime::Client.new(token: token)

client.on :message do |data| case data.text when 'bot hi' then client.message channel: data.channel, text: "Hi <@#{data.user}>!" end end

client.start!

https://github.com/dblock/slack-ruby-client Slack-Ruby-Client

https://github.com/slackhq/node-slack-client https://github.com/dblock/slack-ruby-client

Local Store

rtm.startchannels, users, messages, etc. eventshttps://api.slack.com/events, user_typing, message, channel_joined

https://github.com/howdyai/botkit

supports all slack APIs hears what is said in Slack replies to what is said in Slack supports conversations storage

Botkit

https://github.com/dblock/slack-ruby-bot

real-time and web apis only commands operators regex matchers events

Slack-Ruby-Bot

market.playplay.io

api-explorer.playplay.io

playplay.ioleaderboards challenges matches seasons GIFs

shell.playplay.io

playplay.iostats 266 active teams 3971 games played 996 players devruby grape mongodb slack-ruby-* opsfrom Heroku to Digital Ocean Dokku PaaS loves RAM hard to scale horizontally $$$barely any sponsor money

What to build?Find what people already do at work all day long.Make a bot that helps a team collaborate around that.

Productivity Analytics CommunicationCustomer Support Design Developer Tools File Management Project Management …

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