Assistant for Slack

A Assistant, but on Slack. It allows you to search Google, fetch the date, look up GIFs, and more. More features are in the works.

Requirements:

• Node.JS (preferably v6.0.0+)
• Botkit
• Request
• Google Search Scraper
• Oxford Dictionary API

Installation:

npm install

Getting Started:

Running Locally as a Custom Integration

• Create a new custom integration in your Slack workspace https://api.slack.com/apps?new_app=1

• Under the Add Features and Functionality section add a new bot

• Give the bot a Display name and Default User name and complete by adding the new bot user

• Under the Settings section, select Install App and install your new add to your workspace

• After installation, the OAuth Tokens for Your Team is displayed. Copy the bot user auth token (xoxb -)

• Update the config.js file providing the bot user auth token

• Start the Bot running locally via node node bot.js

• Console output for running bot

Initializing Botkit v0.6.3
info: ** No persistent storage method specified! Data may be lost when process shuts down.
info: ** API CALL: https://slack.com/api/rtm.connect
notice: ** BOT ID: botname ...attempting to connect to RTM!
notice: RTM websocket opened

• Once running got to your Slack workspace, and click on your Bot under the Apps section
• Say 'Hello' to the Bot and if configured correctly you should get the response 'Hey there! How can I help you?'

Other Services and APIs

• You should register for an API KEY or access to the apis running the other services in order to make use of those commands
• Update the config.js with your keys and information as necessary

Known Issues:

• Google Search Scraper gives 10 results instead of the results specified (fixed by modifying directly the module)
• Captcha (make a VPN for the bot, connect via VPN, fill out captcha for latest search, try again)
• Translation returns BAD_NETWORK or something like that (fixed by modifying directly the module)