halp-slack

Get Stack Overflow answers in Slack

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What you will need

• A Heroku account
• An outgoing webhook token for your Slack team
• A Slack API token for your Slack team

Setup

• Clone this repository locally

• Create a new Heroku app

• Push the repository to Heroku

• Navigate to the settings page of the Heroku app and add the following config variables:

  • OUTGOING_WEBHOOK_TOKEN The token for your outgoing webhook integration in Slack
  • BOT_USERNAME The name the bot will use when posting to Slack
  • BOT_ICON The emoji icon for the bot (I used the tophat emoji)
  • SLACK_CHANNEL The ID for the slack channel where Halp will live
  • SLACK_API_TOKEN A personal API token with access to the slack channel
  • STACK_EXCHANGE_SITE The site parameter (typically stackoverflow)

• Navigate to the integrations page for your Slack team. Create an outgoing webhook, choose a trigger word (ex: "halp"), use the URL for your heroku app, and copy the webhook token to your OUTGOING_WEBHOOK_TOKEN config variable.