relay

Bot user that can send messages to different users

Installation

npm install bot-relay

usage

• Instance initialization

const relay = require('bot-relay');
let token = '<slack bot token>'; //@TODO add url to get this token
let slackRelay = relay.slackRelay(token);

slackRelay.connect().then( relayInstance => {
  // send messages to known users
  // broadcast messages to all users
  // post messages to channels
}, connectionError => {
  // you can try to reconnect
  // you can verify with slack to make sure your token is still valid
});

• Turn the bot on and off.

slackRelay.connect(); // return promise - resolve with relay instance
slackRelay.disconnect(); // return promise - resolve with success message

• Relay provide a "notify" method that takes in the user-name or channel-name

relayInstance.notify('<user-1>', 'user_typing');

• Send message to slack user
• given user name
• use your bot to send a message to the above user.

relayInstance.send('Hi there!', '<user-1>');

• Post in a slack channel
• given a channel name
• use your bot to post a message to the above channel.

relayInstance.post('Hello! I am alive :)', '<channel-1>');

• Send message to slack user

relayInstance.broadcast('Sorry for spamming!', ['<user-1>', '<user-2>']);