isabella232 / slackbot-2

Slackbot

How to run

1. Enable hm-slack first, then enable this plugin as well.

   (HM-Slack contains utilities, such as escaping functions.)

2. Head over to your Slack integrations page, and create a new bot user.

   This will give you an API token, which you'll need in a second.

3. For full features, you'll also need an Incoming Webhook integration, so set one of those up too.

4. Configure hm-slackbot in your wp-config.php:

// Used for sending arbitrary messages from WP in hm-slack
define( 'HM_SLACK_INCOMING_URL', 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/your/incoming' );

// Slack bot token
define( 'HM_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN', 'my-bot-token' );

// GitHub integration token for issues
define( 'HM_SLACK_GITHUB_TOKEN', 'myexampletokenfromgithub' );

// Set up the bot's name
define( 'HM_SLACK_BOT_NAME', 'rmbot' );
define( 'HM_SLACK_BOT_ID',   'U03M7H4V5' );

// Set up bot admin (user ID)
define( 'HM_SLACK_BOT_ADMIN_ID', 'U03BWLTDD' );

4. Run the bot

$ wp hm-slackbot run

Running Permanently

If you want to keep Slackbot running all the time, it's best to run it as a daemon. This will keep it running in the background.

To do this, simply add bin/start.sh to your system's cron, with an interval of every minute (* in the minute column). This will check every minute that the bot is still running.