bvallelunga / greetingslack

Auto-greet slack joiners

Greetings Slackers

This simple script written in basic Python will allow you to hook into the real time API of Slack and perform a direct message greeting to every new joiner! Usually this is used to tell new joiners about the network, the guidelines, rules, useful links etc etc

New to programming or don't know how to get started just yet? Don't fret! @izzydoesizzy wrote an amazing step by step, tutorial with screenshot

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If you have questions open an Issue (preferred) or reply to the tutorial article

Requirements

Python 2.7+ Edit bot.py on lines 7-8 to customise with your greeting and token

Installation

git clone <thisgitrepo>
cd <thisgitrepo>
virtualenv greetingslack
. greetingslack/bin/activate
pip install requests
pip install websocket-client
python bot.py &

Heroku

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Q&A

Q1. How do you change the welcome message?

A1. To change the welcome message, edit your Heroku variables: Go to Heroku's Settings, then where it says Config Variables click Reveal Config Vars and it will reveal your message and other fields. This will restart your Heroku instance pretty quickly and apply the changes for you

Q2. How do I know if it worked?

A2. After setting up the bot, your welcome message will be displayed to every new user, as soon as a they join your Slack network - as a direct message. Check the example below:

Q3. How do I enable the debug channel?

A3. In the environment variables set DEBUG_CHANNEL_ID to be the ID of your chosen debug channel. That's usually achieved by using export DEBUG_CHANNEL_ID=<YOUR SLACK CHANNEL ID> in your CLI. We suggest to make this channel private so not just anyone can join it.