How to Build a Slack Bot
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- Slack is a great chat and communication tool used by small and large businesses as well as personal use. Slack has a great API and great official Node JS clients that help you automate many features of Slack. If you're thinking of building a bot for Slack, be sure to follow this step by step tutorial on how to build a Slack bot in JavaScript using the Slack API and the Node Slack SDK. With this SDK, we can connect to the Slack Web API and even hook into events using the RTM API and build a bot in just a few minutes that you can add to your Slack server today.
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00:00 Intro
00:22 Why
00:37 What is Slack
00:59 What We're Going to Build
01:31 Create a Slack Workspace
01:53 Create a Slack App
02:31 Add App Features to Our Slack App
03:08 Customize Our Bot Display
03:23 Start Writing Code
04:05 Configure Your Machine for JavaScript Development
04:37 Install Dependencies
06:01 Get Slack OAuth Access Token
07:11 Start Our Bot
07:31 Send Message From Bot
08:30 Bot Spam Channel
09:30 Bot Online Message
10:39 Hello Command Using Events
11:27 Invite Bot to Channel
12:16 !hello Command Logic
14:25 Bot Mentions with userId
15:30 Bot Feature Complete
15:41 Conclusion
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Do you use Slack at home or at work?
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Both!
Literally just got started with Slack bots today, and your tutorial just hit the spot! Not too much to overwhelm a total newbie, at the same time taking care not to leave out any important details. How can I build on this to have the bot reply to @mybot , as opposed to ! messages? Thanks again for putting this together.
Your videos are always perfect and simple enough for everybody! You have a new fan
Thank you!
I started watching you yesterday, namely the video where u show how to do a video card passthrough on proxmod. Good video that one. I appreciate guys like this. Goes into all the details. Keep doing your thing man. Im subbing.
Awesome, thank you!
would love to see a part 2!
Techno Tim; LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your videos! Thank you. 💜
I've only started following your videos fairly recently. Keep it up, I am sure your channel will grow!! 🤖
Welcome aboard!
After clicking Bots 2:39, the Add Legacy option is not available...
Thanks a lot ! Very good explanation !
Love the video!
Thank you for this!
thank you!
It was really cool. Thanks!!
great Video, part 2, please!
Your video re amazing, hope your chanel get millions of sub , you deserve it, good luck mate
Thank you so much! I'd be fine with a few hundred thousand ;)
Nice video. One suggestion: I would add an annotation/link to your "Setting Up Windows for JavaScript Development THE RIGHT WAY" video at 03:23 Start Writing Code. I hadn't seen your description while watching your video for the first time and I was immediately lost at that chapter.
Hello!
Thank you so much for this great Tutorial!
Unfortunately, i'm having a small problem... When i type "!Hello" at Slack, the Bot answers me the same message 5 times in a row... and i can't understand why. Could you give me a little help please?
Thanks in advance!
Great man! I love it♥️
Thank you 🙌
I love it! It works very well.
Glad you like it!
Great video! Do you have a recommendation for how to keep the bot running when you close your terminal?
You would have to run something like PM2 or put it in a Docker container.
Nice tutorial but rtm-api is deprecated . Can you create same tutotial in socket Mode using @Slack/bolt package? Thanks and happy Learning!!
Hey man. Grateful to have found your tutorial! Really helpful. I've got an issue though. My bot is not appearing as online even though I got the "Always Show My Bot as Online" enabled. Any thoughts? Thanks and cheers!
Thank you! Not sure, firewall?
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you liked it!
Nice Tim, keep it up :D
Thanks! 😀
@@TechnoTim Wow, thanks for responding, I really like your channel :D
Thank you! Feel free to suggest some content you’d like to see!
@@TechnoTim Hey, I'd suggest maybe reviewing some Discord bots and providing some info to start your own server. I have my own bot, Pwn, let me know if you wanna check it out :D
Where do you host your bot?
I'm working on a bot that sends request to my private API to create some data on my DB and they are mounted both on the same server. Do you recommend this or should I mount both of them as different applications?
I would probably separate these
I used to program a lot of PHP code, and am familiar with server side code, but how do i install this on a web server so i can run it in production not just on my main machine. Your tutorial for how to configure my windows environment was nice, a few version updates made me search for a few answer but i got there.
You could containerize it (put it inside of a docker image) then run docker on a server. See my GitHub for an example. The techno-react has an example of how to build it in CI and do all of this as well as deploy to kubernetes
i think the RTM API is deprecated now?
Hey Techno Tim,
After starting up the bot at 8:39, I get the following error message:
*/
TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'message')
at Object.callback (/Users/estongreub/Desktop/sherlocktest/node_modules/@slack/rtm-api/dist/RTMClient.js:397:89)
at callback (node:internal/streams/writable:555:21)
at afterWrite (node:internal/streams/writable:500:5)
at onwrite (node:internal/streams/writable:480:7)
at WriteWrap.onWriteComplete [as oncomplete] (node:internal/stream_base_commons:106:10)
/*
Do you know what I can do next?
Legacy Bot user is no more available. Do you know whats the alternative ?
It still works for me, I just tested the documentation.
@3:29 what software is that
Hey do we have 2nd part of this ?
Sorry, we do not!
One question. Can you do a video in how to host/create a game server in proxmox if it's possible to do it in that. If not then with a reliable solution to host gaming servers on one server machine.
If they have a docker image for the game you want to serve, this is the route I always take czcams.com/video/oILc0ywDVTk/video.html
Thanks man appreciate it.
Very good video! I think it would helped in the beginning of the video to explain the general architecture, how it works and how the components interact with each other
Great suggestion!
Hey Tim, great Video. Could you maybe make a Video about the Ticketsystem „Zammad“ or about the knowledgebase System „xWiki“?
What about it would you like to see?
@Techno Tim: Hey Tim, thanks for reply so fast. I thougt about, the installation process on containers like LXC with Ubuntu/Cent OS/Debian or on Docker/Kubernetes managed by rancher. Maybe LXC is the better choice for this. Also a quick overview about the Software/Systems and maybe some free features or extensions wich could be interesting for all People would be great. This could be interessting for all, i think.
@@alexanders9763 OOC, why would LXC better than Docker for this? I haven't heard of this yet, I will look into it! Thank you!
@Techno Tim: Hey Tim, please correct me if I‘m wrong, but as far as I know, lxc containers or vm’s are the better choice as docker for a ticket system or a knowledgebase in point of it-security. But maybe i‘m wrong, and there is an easy way of hardening docker, wich I actually don’t know, because i‘m not an Docker expert.
rtm-api:RTMClient:1 A websocket error occurred: read ECONNRESET
any help on this
not sure.
I can't seem to find the ~ directory from within VSCode. I have the folder created, but I have no idea where my linux stuff resides on the Windows machine. Any ideas?
I think you can access WSL folders in windows by going to \\wsl$\:
@@TechnoTim appreciate the reply. Will try this out today. Thanks!
Yo TechnoTime, its been a year since you published this. and I don't see a classic app option. What gives?
and there is no option for legacy bot user.
@@webmandman have you found a way around this yet?
Till 7:16 everything is fine but when I run this yarn start, I got this error: rtm-api:RTMClient:1 unable to RTM start: An API error occurred: not_allowed_token_type. Any Idea?
Sounds like you didn't give it the right token or the right scopes!
same and ik i gave the right token but ik i gave scopes on the api that are referenced in my js but still getting the same error
LIKE --> Comment , before Watching video I know it will be something good
Thank you so much!
I need ot build a bot for work. I have been tasked with sending out a DSU message in out "bench" channel and then everyone on the bench is supposed to reply in thread for that day. And then I cross reference the people that responded with a list of people that should have responded like... taking attendance.
I imagine this bot would when I comes online (in the bench channel) would grab everyone in that channel and remember them, if a person joins it adds them to its memory if they leave it removed them.
Then every day it would start a message in the bench channel then message each person in it memory asking for their DSU when they reply it would take that message reply and put it as a response in the thread to it create for that day.
I imagine it to have a command that could be rand that would spit out a csv for everyone in that week and whether or not they participated and on what days.
🤩💯
TIL what a template string was xD
nice!
For the first 3min you showed how to make a Slack server, what is completely common sense, because probably everyone already got a Slack server, that's why they're here. But when you start writing code, you tell nothing about how to write code. I've never done this, I've no idea what you're using to make that. This is not really beginner friendly.
Legacy bot user is no longer available.
it's still available, I just tested it. Look at my docs in the description for a link
How about if we can’t use legacy bot user since it have a lot of permission and want to define the scope with new app creation will it work?
@@TechnoTim looks like now events api is required right? rtm on slack_events not working anymore?
@@bulataleev1056 use "GitHub Repo" link in description - then "Slack API - Create a classic app" link in Info section to create legacy bot (works on Mar 19, 2021)
I don't like these cut down videos where people don't how did you get to the screens where you are adjusting setting. This is really terrible way to teach someone something.
0cool sorry you feel that way. The code is in my github.
This video isn't all that helpful anymore. It would be nice to get one that isn't a classic app.