A wild BUTTON appears

A completely useless bot for Slack

A wild BUTTON appears is a completely useless bot for Slack. During work days, at a random time between 09:00-16:00, the bot will post a message with a button to Slack channel of choice. The first user to click the button wins, and can enjoy the glory during the rest of the day.

Screenshots

Usage

Install the bot, and then proceed by waiting for a wild BUTTON to appear.

Installation, configuration, and running

Installation

Install with a cloud-hosted instance

After installation, you will receive a message by DM in your Slack client. You can then go to the Home tab of wildbutton, where you can configure settings. You need to at least select the proper channel to post buttons to 🙂

The cloud-hosted service is free to use, and kindly sponsored by Debricked.

Deploy own instance

Configure new Slack app with following properties:

• Fill in app name, description, icon, and colour.
• Configure interactive components with the URL ending in /interactive
• Configure slash commands with the URL ending in /commands
• Configure event subscriptions with URL ending in /events. Subscribe to bot scope app_uninstall and app_home_opened.
• Configure bot user/app home. Set Home Tab to active.
• Configure permissions:
  • Add the redirect url to the URL ending in /auth.
  • Add Bot Token Scopes: commands, channels:read, chat:write, groups:read, im:write, channels:join, chat:write.public.

Configuration

A wild BUTTON appears needs some environmental variables configured. You can either supply them as regular environmental variables in your shell, or put them in a .env file in the same folder as wildbutton.js.

• MONGO_URL: A connection string to connect to MongoDB. Example: mongodb+srv://user:[email protected]/test?retryWrites=true&w=majority
• MONGO_DATABASE_NAME: Name of database in Mongo to store the instance data.
• SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET: Signing secret to verify that the requests comes from Slack
• SLACK_CLIENT_ID: Client ID for Slack app.
• SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET: Client secret for Slack app.
• SLACK_REDIRECT_URI: Publicly available url where Slack should redirect to after adding app (the endpoint ending in /auth)
• JWT_SECRET: A random string used to secure JWT tokens used for internal communications.
• PORT: Port for HTTP server to listen on, only used in standalone mode, not in serverless.
• SENTRY_DSN: Optional DSN if you want to submit errors to Sentry. Truly optional, if not set, log only to stderr/stdout. Only works in serverless mode.

Running

Standalone mode

Launch the handler-standalone.js file with Node.

Serverless

To deploy a staging environment, use e.g. sls deploy --stage=dev --env=staging which will load settings from .env.staging.

For production, use something like sls deploy --stage=production --env=production.

License

A wild BUTTON appears is licensed under GNU AGPL v3 or later, see the LICENSE file for the full license.

a-wild-button-appears - a slack bot for posting random buttons
Copyright (c) 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, Linus Karlsson

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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