Slack
For those of you who don’t know what slack is- Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It’s real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.
Things to know
API
API’s – Application programming interface is kind of like a pact between the provider and the reciever, wherein you can request data from the host server using the API and the API key.
For example you can request google maps to send you the map location of Chennai in your application only and only if you have an API key and use the Google Maps API.
Webhooks
Webhooks are like reverse API's, wherein you provide the information provider with a URL/Address where all new data goes if any.
The difference between the two is that in the first one you have to keep checking for new data/changes where as in webhooks any and every change/data is sent to the address provided while creating the webhook.
Getting Ready
For our first slack bot we will not be using a webhook, in other words we will be pinging slack servers again and again till we see a change and then process the change.
pip install slackclient
Go to Slack API Page
After all this get your API key Next you willl need to get your bot’s ID for that RUN this simple code just once and copy your bot ID
import os
from slackclient import SlackClient
BOT_NAME = 'YOUR BOT NAME WHICH YOU GAVE EXAMPLE @SOMETHINGBOT'
slack_client ="YOUR API KEY"
if __name__ == "__main__":
api_call = slack_client.api_call("users.list")
if api_call.get('ok'):
users = api_call.get('members')
for user in users:
if 'name' in user and user.get('name') == BOT_NAME:
print("Bot ID for '" + user['name'] + "' is " + user.get('id'))
else:
print("could not find bot user with the name " + BOT_NAME)
After running this you should get your bots ID.
What I tried to do was, build a sentiment analysis bot.
To do the sentiment analysis I used Indico
Further code and explaination can be found in my github account.
Mini Project
Create a slack bot that sends a general report to the admin of the group/ group leader at the end of the day.
The report should consist of the following.
Avg mood of the group: Positive
Most Positive/Negative Person: Name
