heyemoji π π β
The heyemoji
bot is a self-hosted slack reward system that allows team members to recognize eachother for anything awesome they may have done. This is accomplished by mentioning a user's slack @username in a channel along with a pre-configured reward emoji and an optional description of what they did. The emoji points bestowed to users can be tracked via leaderboards.
Table of Contents
Basic Usage
Give a single user emoji points
Great job filling out those TPS reports @michael.bolton! β
Give multiple users emoji points
Thanks @michael.bolton and @samir for coming in this weekend! β
Give multiple emojis to a user
Score! @petergibbons found my red stapler! β π π π
Bot Commands
Name |
Description |
leaderboard <day|week|month|year> |
see the top 10 people on your leaderboard |
points |
see how many emoji points you have left to give |
help |
get help with how to send recognition emoji |
Setup
- Browse to https://api.slack.com/apps?new_classic_app=1
- Assign a name and workspace to your new Slack Bot Application
Basic Information
> Set display name and icon
App Home
> Add Legacy Bot User
OAuth & Permissions
> Install App to Workspace
- Copy your Bot User OAuth Access Token for your
HEY_SLACK_API_TOKEN
- Run
heyemoji
specifying the above token! π
Configuration
ENV Var |
Default |
Required |
Note |
HEY_BOT_NAME |
heyemoji |
No |
The display name of the heyemoji bot |
HEY_DATABASE_PATH |
./data/ |
No |
The directory that the database files should be written to |
HEY_SLACK_TOKEN |
|
Yes |
The API tokens for the Slack API |
HEY_SLACK_EMOJI |
star:1 |
No |
Comma delimited set of emoji "name:value" pairs |
HEY_SLACK_DAILY_CAP |
5 |
No |
The max number of emoji points that can be given out in a day |
HEY_WEBSOCKET_PORT |
3334 |
No |
Port that the Slack RTM client will listen on |
Specifying Custom Reward Emoji
The HEY_SLACK_EMOJI
setting lets you specify multiple different reward emoji as well as different point values for each. So, if you wanted the following emoji and reward values:
Emoji |
Value |
β |
1 |
π |
2 |
π |
3 |
You would specify the HEY_SLACK_EMOJI
as: star:1,clap:2,trophy:3