mollyhenderson / emojifier

Slack webhook to create emojis

emojify <url> as <name>

aliasify <existing-emoji> as <name>

Suggested improvements:

• Allow for gif emojis
• Support emojifying attachments

Setup:

• Create a heroku app at https://dashboard.heroku.com
• Clone this repo
• Push the repo up to the heroku app:

$ heroku git:remote -a <your-heroku-url>
Git remote heroku added.
$ git push heroku master

• Sign up as a new Slack user
• Set up an outgoing webhook for your Slack team (found at https://<slack-team-name>.slack.com/apps/manage/custom-integrations)
• Optionally choose a channel for Emojifier to listen on
• If you will be using trigger words, add them in the Trigger Words field separated by a comma
• Set the URL to https://<your-heroku-url>.herokuapp.com/slack/emojify
• Take note of the generated token
• Update the environment variables in heroku

$ heroku config:set SLACK_TOKEN=<token-from-above>
$ heroku config:set SLACK_URL=<slack-team-name>
$ heroku config:set SLACK_EMAIL=<email>
$ heroku config:set SLACK_PW=<password>
$ heroku config:set EMOJI_TRIGGER=<emoji-trigger>
$ heroku config:set ALIAS_TRIGGER=<alias-trigger>