parrot

parrot

This is a Slack bot that adds group notifications using private messages. A quick hack for demo purpose only.

Running

Copy config_template.json to config.json and set the "admin" field to your Slack user ID (e.g. "U01ABCDEF9").

Get yourself a Slack bot API token, and set the environment variable PARROT_SLACK_TOKEN:

$ PARROT_SLACK_TOKEN=abcd-123456789012-123456789012345678901234 go run parrot.go

Usage

The bot listens to messages in all channels it is invited to. If a message starts with a word with @ as first letter, parrot checks if that trigger word exists and has any receivers. If so, it forwards the entire message to all of them as private message.

Commands

Commands are sent to parrot as private messages.

Available to anyone

• list - lists all trigger words & receivers

Available to admin

• set - set a trigger word, usage example set foobar @james @jane creates the foobar trigger word.
• del - delete a trigger word, usage example del foobar.
• save - save the config to file
• debug - enable debug printouts