SpotBot

A friendly and helpful bot for the Crossings Slack!

Features

• Wishes users happy birthday on their birthday
• Spotlights a new channel every month

Setup

1. Enable the following Bot Token OAuth scopes for Spotbot:

• channels:read (to look for channels to feature in the channel spotlight)
• chat:write (to send messages)
• users:read (to find out users' timezones for timezone-appropriate birthday wishes)
• users.profile:read (to look for birthdays in users' profiles)

2. Assign environment variables in .env:

• your Bot User OAuth Access Token goes in SLACK_BOT_TOKEN
• your Signing Secret goes in SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET
• the port you want SpotBot to run on (default: 3000) goes in PORT (SpotBot doesn't need a port because it doesn't respond to any events from Slack.)

3. If you're running it locally, do the usual Node thing:

$ npm install
$ node run start

4. If you're setting it up on a server, register it with systemd:

Instructions TBD. Reference this for now.