Jbots

what can I do with jbots?

• Outgoing WebHooks
• Slash Commands
• or write a little code and do many other things

how to jbot

1. fork/clone jbots
2. duplicate or replace ./bots/hello.js
3. implement your custom bot logic
4. git commit && git push to your deployment center of choice

• Heroku should just work given the bundled package.json + Procfile

5. configure Slack integrations to send events to your bots however it makes sense to you

slack cheat sheet

request.payload

{
  token:        "9itBZe5CqNAOEQP3RXACsfqb"
  team_id:      "T0001"
  channel_id:   "C4815162342"
  channel_name: "test"
  timestamp:    "1355517523.000005"
  user_id:      "U4128675309"
  user_name:    "Steve"
  text:         "googlebot: What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
}

For more information on how messages are formatted in Slack, please consult their API docs.

expected reply(payload)

  {
    "text": "Hello.",
    "username": "jbot"
  }