theMet-slack

Retrieves a random piece from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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What you will need

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

Setup

• Clone this repo locally
• Create a new Heroku app and initialize the repo
• Push the repo 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 book emoji)
• Navigate to the integrations page for your Slack team. Create an outgoing webhook, choose a trigger word (ex: "random art"), use the URL for your heroku app, and copy the webhook token to your OUTGOING_WEBHOOK_TOKEN config variable.