Hello PyBotPython Chat Bots for Slack

github.com/jeffk/PyBot

Jeff Kramer (@jeffk) ~ Data Infrastructure @ Vox Media

Users

Turing’s Magic Matrix

PassBots

Pass

Fail

Incoming Web Hooks• Unique URLs • JSON Payloads

• Custom Names/Icons/Chan

curl -X POST —data-urlencode 'payload={ "text": "This is posted to <#general> and comes from *monkey-bot*.", "channel": "#general", "username": "monkey-bot", "icon_emoji": “:monkey_face:"}' https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00/B000/XXXXXX

Outgoing Web Hooks• Channel and/or Trigger Words

(Public-Only) • HTTP Post, JSON Resp

token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX team_id=T0001 team_domain=example channel_id=C2147483705 channel_name=test timestamp=1355517523.000005

user_id=U2147483697 user_name=Steve text=googlebot: What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? trigger_word=googlebot:

{ "text": "African or European?” }

/Slash Commands• POST or GET • Response Only Shown to User

It’s San Francisco, ergo cold.

token=gIkuvaNzQIHg97ATv team_id=T0001 team_domain=example channel_id=C2147483705 channel_name=test

user_id=U2147483697 user_name=Steve command=/weather text=94103

Other Integrations

• Web API (OAUTH, HTTP RPC) • IRC/XMPP/LOL/SOB

The Slack Real Time Messaging API

• WebSockets

• Used by all Slack Clients

• Pushed All Messages in All Channels

• Commonly Used with Bot Users

• Can’t Join Channels

• Always Active (Unless set)

Real Time WebSockets Examples

Frameworks & Wrappers• python-rtmbot

• Uses SlackClient

• Supports Plugins

• api.slack.com/community#python

• err - Popular Chatbot w/Slack Support

• butterfield - Uses asyncio

• slacker - Popular Wrapper

Scaling Up

• Connection Proxies/Message Brokers (Relax)

• Task Queues (Celery)

• Sharding

Resources

github.com/slackhq/python-slackclient & python-rtmbot

@jeffk jeffkramer.com github.com/jeffk/PyBot

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