Parrotbot

Example/toy slack bot designed to be hosted in AWS Lambda. The following environment variables should be set:

• TARGET_CHANNEL - the ID of the channel that parrotbot listens to
• PARROTBOT_TOKEN - the token used by parrotbot to authenticate with slack's Web API
• SLACK_TOKEN - the token issued by slack to prove that an Event API webhook orignates from slack

These may be set along with the code in the AWS Lambda console.

Build it:

If you have typescript installed globally:

npm install && npm link typescript && npm run webpack

And if you don't:

npm install && npm install -g typescript && npm link typescript && npm run webpack

Run it:

In Slack, create an app with a bot user, give it the correct permissions to post to channels. Generate the OAuth tokens.

The build should produce a js output file in bin/slackEvents.min.js. Copy the file into the Lambda in-line code editor, set the environment variables mentioned above (using encryption!).

Using the API Gateway, expose a POST endpoint that routes requests to the lambda, using AWS Lambda Proxy Integration. Deploy the API, and copy the url and use it to enable Event subscriptions for message.channels in both Team Events, and Bot Events.

Logs should be accessible from the Lambda console (CloudWatch link).