uqcsbot

uqcsbot is a chat bot built in python for use on our UQCS Slack Team.

Setting up the local development environment

To run the local development environment, make sure you have Python 3 installed.

1. Run python setup.py install
2. Run python -m uqcsbot --dev

Setting up the remote development environment

To set everything up make sure you have Python 3 and virtualenv

1. Create a Slack workspace
2. Set up a virtualenv. See virtualenv docs for more information.
3. Activate the virtualenv
4. python setup.py install
5. Create a new Slack app
6. Add a bot user to your app
7. Install your app to your workspace. Install App > Install App to Workspace
8. Copy the Bot User OAuth Access Token and set it as an environment variable under SLACK_BOT_TOKEN
9. Go to Basic Information, copy your Verification Token and set it as an environment variable under SLACK_VERIFICATION_TOKEN
10. Run python -m uqcsbot

The bot should now be running and receiving all slack RTM events.