https://github.com/alexbelloni/hubbottwo

Slackbot based on Hubot Framework
https://github.com/alexbelloni/hubbottwo

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Slackbot based on Hubot Framework

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alexbelloni/hubbottwo
• Owner: alexbelloni
• Created: 2020-03-11T16:44:09.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-12T06:27:57.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-01T16:55:44.079Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: CoffeeScript
• Size: 88.9 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Slackbot hubbottwo

hubbottwo is a Slack chat bot, which gives us NASA information.  

  

Project description: Using the provided scaffolding, build a basic Slackbot that responds to user input and run it locally from your machine in the class Slack channel.   

Personal channel: https://nasahubbot2.slack.com

## What can hubbottwo do?

### 1) Alert users about its abilities

Hubbottwo takes action in any mention about the acronym "API".

Example on Slack channel:

    user> Some interesting NASA API? 

    hubbottwo> (Some interesting NASA API?) Me! I know lots of awesome NASA websites and APIs. Reply me "websites"

### 2) Give suggestions of awesome NASA websites

This bot gives suggestions of awesome NASA pages when users post the command "websites".

 Example on Slack channel:

    user> @hubbottwo websites 

    hubbottwo> My two suggestions are power.larc.nasa.gov and ntrs.nasa.gov

### 3) Show the picture of the day

The chatbot searches for the picture of the day on NASA APOD API.

 Example on Slack channel:

    user> @hubbottwo picture 

    hubbottwo> @user "Zoom in of the Sun" by NASA: zoom-in-of-the-sun.jpg

## Project's Technical Requirements

✔ Have a message post to Slack based on user input  

✔ Do at least 3 different things  

✔ Use at least 1 conditional to change the outcome of a Slackbot.  

✔ Leverage a for loop to iterate over a collection  

✔ Introduce a random component  

✔ Include an image in the response in addition to text

## Technical hurdles and new knowledge

### Hurdles

Follow a configuration guide based on old versions of Slack pages  

Understand a new coding syntax (CoffeeScript)  

Fix the token environment variable in Windows (; issue) 

### New things 

Hubot framework  

How to connect a chatbot to slack  

Hubot external packages

## Running hubbottwo Locally

You can test your hubot by running the following, however some plugins will not

behave as expected unless the [environment variables](#configuration) they rely

upon have been set.

You can start hubbottwo locally by running:

    % bin/hubot

## Deployment

Coding on GitHub  

Deployment on Heroku

## Restart the bot

You may want to get comfortable with `heroku logs` and `heroku restart` if

you're having issues.

## References

Hubot Framework: http://hubot.github.com  

Generator-Hubot: https://github.com/github/generator-hubot  

Heroku: https://heroku.com  

Slack room for testing: https://nasahubbot2.slack.com  

Alex's website: https://alexandrebelloni.com