wirebot

WIREBOT consumes WIRE-API

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed locally:

• Node v9+

Installing

Clone this git repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/AndelaOSP/wirebot.git

Navigate into the root of the cloned directory:

$ cd wirebot

Install all dependencies:

$ yarn

Slack App Configuration

Get started by creating a Slack App if you haven't already.

PS: You can only add the Slack-App to a workspace, with which you have admin access, You can create a new one for testing.

On the Basic Information page, in the section for App Credentials, note the Verification Token (we will add it to our .env file).

On the the Oauth & Permissions page on the dashboard,

• In the section for OAuth Settings note the OAuth Access Token
• Scroll down to the Scopes - Select Permission Scopes section and add the following permissions to your app
  • commands
  • users:read
  • users:read.email
  • users.profile:read
  • channels:read
  • chat:write:bot
  • chat:write:user
  • groups:read
  • groups:write
  • incoming-webhook
  • usergroups:write
  • team:read
• Click on Save Changes

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ngrok Setup

At this point make sure the wire-api & wire-bot are running locally, we will need our created Slack-App to be able to communicate with our local wire-bot server.

• To do this we will need ngrok. Follow this links' instructions to install ngrok on your computer.

• Start ngrok with this command ngrok http 3001 ie 3001 is the port on which the wire-bot server is running.

• When ngrok runs, Copy the Forwarding url that is logged on the console (we will be needing it as we continue setting up the Slack-App)

• PS: the provided ngrok url is new on every restart of ngrok, you will need to update where its used everytime you restart ngrok.

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On the Interactive Components page,

• Enable interactivity.
• Input a Request URL. The request url would be https://Your-github-username.serveo.net/slack/actions in development or you can use: http://Forwarding url/slack/actions

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On the Slash Commands page,

• click create a new slash command
  • command /report
  • request url https://Forwarding url/slack/report
  • fill in other details for your command.
  • save your changes

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Add a BOT User,

• On the BOT Users page
• Create a new BOT user (give the BOT user a name & username then save changes).
• PS: This will require you to re-install the app to the workspace to add these changes.

After the BOT User has been created

• On the OAuth & Permissions page.
• Copy the Bot User OAuth Access Token, it will be set in our .env file as the SLACK_TOKEN.

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Run WIREBOT locally

• Create a .env file and configure your environment variables using the .env.sample file in the root directory of the repository

• Start the bot server locally:

  npm run start:dev

• You can now communicate with the bot via Slack using the slash command below

  • /report for reporting incidents.

Testing New Branches

To test a new branch prior to merging a pull request:

• Run npm test
• Testing framework setup in progress

Authors

• Ian King'ori
• Batian Muthoga
• Kisakye Gordon

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.