williamgorge / toucan-toco-slack-app

This is a POC for the hackaton of 2019-11-05

How to run the bot

1. Adapt ngrok.yml to point to the directory where you have put this repo.
2. Run yarn start-tunnel
3. Configure a user that has access to the asset-portfolio small app on https://solutions.toucantoco.com/
4. Open a seperate terminal and set the following evironment variables:
   • SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET: go to https://api.slack.com/apps/APU7YF22X and check 'Signing Secret'
   • SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: go to https://api.slack.com/apps/APU7YF22X/oauth, and check 'Bot User OAuth Access Token'
   • FILE_SYSTEM_URL: In the first terminal where yarn start-tunnel is running, get the https URL that is next to 'file://....'. It should not end with a slash: for example, https://d93d31ca.ngrok.io
   • TOUCAN_TOCO_USERNAME: the username of the user on solutions
   • TOUCAN_TOCO_PASSWORD: the username of the user on solutions
5. Run yarn start-service
6. Go to https://api.slack.com/apps/APU7YF22X/event-subscriptions and change the URL of the event subscription to the grok URL you have set up with yarn start-tunnel. It is the one next to http://localhost:3000, and you have to add /slack/events, for example with http://08460448.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:3000 it is http://08460448.ngrok.io/slack/events.
7. Go to https://api.slack.com/apps/APU7YF22X/slash-commands modify the /toucantoco command with the same url.
8. Go to slack, create a channel for testing and type /toucantoco or @Toucan Toco

It should work!