https://github.com/codeofnode/basecamp-on-slack

Get notified of basecamp todos on slack and assign todo via slack itself
https://github.com/codeofnode/basecamp-on-slack

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Get notified of basecamp todos on slack and assign todo via slack itself

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/codeofnode/basecamp-on-slack
• Owner: codeofnode
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-09-10T12:37:58.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-09-10T12:41:37.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-23T09:35:28.681Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 6.84 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Base Camp on slack

Monitor base camp todos and post them in a Slack channel.

## Pre-requisites

- AWS account with [AWS-CLI](https://aws.amazon.com/cli/) configured

- [DynamoDB] account

- [Basecamp](https://basecamp.com) account

- [Serverless](https://serverless.com) framework installed

- [Slack](https://slack.com) team with incoming webhook

## How to use it

in `serverless.yml` change the environment variables to your own values.

`DYNAMODB_TABLE` to setup DYNAMODB.

`BC_USER_TABLE` to setup DYNAMODB.

`BASECAMP_KEY` to authentication key to access BASECAMP API

`BASECAMP_ACCOUNT_ID` the account id of basecamp

`BASECAMP_PROJECT_ID` the project id of basecamp

`BASECAMP_LIST_ID` the todo list id of basecamp

`SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL` is the URL of the Slack incoming webhook you’ve created 

`SLACK_CHANNEL` should be an existing channel name in your Slack team (#basecamp)

`SLACK_USERNAME` the username/botname of slack

`SLACK_ACCESS_TOKEN` the slack access tocken for the slackbot

`SLACK_USERLIST_URL` the url to fetch all slack users

### assign a task

> you need to have another table to store basecame userid -> slack userid mapping.

Simply reply the notification from bot as below

`assignto @username`

## workflow

* Sync the users

* * Fetch slack users

* * Fetch basecamp users

* * create the map into table: BC_USER_TABLE

* For each interval of 10 minutes

* * Lamda handler is called to make query to find the new todos

* * For each todo, create entry in table : DYNAMODB_TABLE and make a slack post

* whenever a user replys to that notification with above synctax

* * It assigns mentioned user to that task

### test locally

`serverless invoke local — function getBasecampTodos`

### deploy

`serveless deploy`

## License

The MIT License (MIT)