Hubot Slack Timeline

Description

It will send all of the messages on Slack in #timeline. However, a private group messages does not include

Installation and Setup

Add the following code in your external-scripts.json file. ["hubot-slack-timeline"]

Note: The default hubot configuration will use a redis based brain that assumes the redis server is already running. Either start your local redis server (usually with redis-start &) or remove the redis-brain.coffee script from the default hubot-scripts.json file.

Create #timeline channel in Slack

type /open and create #timeline channel in your Slack

Configuring the variables on Heroku

% heroku config:add SLACK_API_TOKEN="YOUR_SLACK_API_TOKEN"

Configuring the variables on UNIX

% export SLACK_API_TOKEN="YOUR_SLACK_API_TOKEN"

Optional

change timeline's channel name (default: timeline)

% export SLACK_TIMELINE_CHANNEL=timeline

link name, channels into #timeline (default: 0)

% export SLACK_LINK_NAMES=1

Note: You can generate Slack API token here https://api.slack.com/