yelp-slack

Get Yelp search results in Slack

What you will need

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

Setup

• Clone this repository locally
• Create a new Heroku app and follow the instructions to initialize the yelp-slack repository
• Use the Yelp API page to generate API credentials
• 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 (more on this in a bit)
  • BOT_USERNAME The name the bot will use when posting to Slack
  • BOT_ICON The emoji icon for the bot
  • YELP_CONSUMER_KEY The consumer key for your Yelp API credentials
  • YELP_CONSUMER_SECRET The consumer secret for your Yelp API credentials
  • YELP_TOKEN The token for your Yelp API credentials
  • YELP_TOKEN_SECRET The token secret for your Yelp API credentials
  • RADIUS The radius for the search in meteres. Maximum radius is 40000 meters (25 miles)
  • LOCATION The center of the radius for your searches. Can be a zip code, neighborhood, adress, or city
• Navigate to the integrations page for your Slack team. Create an outgoing webhook, choose a trigger word (ex: ".lunch"), use the URL for your heroku app, and copy the webhook token to your OUTGOING_WEBHOOK_TOKEN config variable.
• Push the repository to the Heroku app
• Try a search (ex: ".lunch pizza"). You should get a recommendation back.

Thanks

Yelp Ruby Gem

@gesteves Who's code I am constantly referencing.