Slacked

A slack app for automation.

Create slack slash commands quickly and easily, as simple node modules.

See the demo in packages/demo for a basic example.

Config

You should export the app token provided to you by slack as the SLACK_TOKEN environment variable.

Adding slack slash commands

Add new slash commands as plugins - see packages/demo-plugin for an example. Register your plugin in config.json:

{
  "plugins": [
    "demo"
  ]
}

Plugins

Plugins export three things, an exec method which is called when the command is initiated via slack:

exec: function(who, text, responseUrl)

who: the username of the person executing the task text: all remaining arguments passed after the initial /slash command responseUrl: The out-of-band response url which you can send delayed replies to.

a command getter:

command: <string>

Which is the name of the command. For instance exports.command = 'foo' would mount the command at the endpoint http://localhost/commands/foo and you could point slack's slash command url at that. It's probably wise to also assign the command /foo to this, but it's not mandatory - your slash command can be anything you like.

The built in demo command will just say hello to somebody: /demo <name here>

and a config setter:

setConfig: function (conf) { ... }

which will be passed the relevant config, from the appropriately named key in config.json:

{
  "plugins": [
    "demo"
  ],
  "demo": {
    "some": "config"
  }
}

Replies

The slacked-slack module handles replies and things. If you throw errors anywhere in your plugins, these will be relayed ephermally to your calling users.