ubysseybot

ubysseybot is a chat bot built on the Hubot framework for our Slack deployed on Google App Engine

Made with ❤️ by The Ubyssey, the University of British Columbia's student newspaper since 1918.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ubyssey/ubysseybot
cd ubysseybot
npm install

Running locally

You can start ubysseybot locally by running:

bin/hubot

You'll see some start up output and a prompt:

[Sat Feb 28 2015 12:38:27 GMT+0000 (GMT)] INFO Using default redis on localhost:6379
ubysseybot>

Then you can interact with ubysseybot by typing ubysseybot help.

ubysseybot> ubysseybot help
ubysseybot animate me <query> - The same thing as `image me`, except adds [snip]
ubysseybot help - Displays all of the help commands that ubysseybot knows about.
...

Running locally on Slack

You will need a slack app token for your specific slack team. Check out the documentation from Slack

HUBOT_SLACK_TOKEN=xxxx-your-token-xxxx ./bin/hubot -a slack

Deployment

We use Google App Engine for most of our deployment including this slack bot.

Check out the official Node.js documentation

We recommend this article as a strategy to store private tokens on GAE.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0