athiwatp / slack-bot

bottie

##Simple BotKit bot with NLP

###Original blog post avaliable on Andrew Templeton's blog:

http://blog.templeton.host/self-training-nlp-enabled-slack-bot-tutorial/

##Step 1 - Get Your Slack Bot Token

• Go to Slack's Custom Integrations panel and click on the Bots link: https://my.slack.com/apps/build/custom-integration
• Name your Bot and COPY the API Token value into your clipboard

##Step 2 - Download the bottie code to your computer

If you're here on GitHub, you already know what to do. Navigate to the downloaded project folder (on your computer) and run the the following commands [no dollar sign is required, used for reference only]:

• RUN - $ npm install;
• RUN - $ export SLACK_TOKEN='<COPIED_TOKEN from your Slack-Bot API>';
• RUN - $ node index

##Step 3 - Learn and build on the bottie code To learn how to interact and use the Bot, read Andrews blog post. It's a great starting point for those looking to build / extend a bot to fit their project needs.

Bonus points: Examples of how to use sentiment and make JSON calls have been included in this example. You might also want to look at Adam-nnl's bot (https://github.com/adam-nnl/owb-bot/) for other ideas on how to extend bottie.