age-calculator-slackbot

In this repository we build a simple slack bot to calculate age.

Pre-requsites

• You must have a Slack Workspace and you must be an admin of that.

• If you don't have it, create a new workspace.

• Then go to https://api.slack.com/apps

  

• Click on create an app and select from scratch.

  

• Enter the name of your app and select the workspace for that app.

  

• Then go to socket mode and click on enable socket mode.

  

• Enter your token-name and generate the app token.

  

• Copy you app token and save it in a text file to use it later.

  

• Then go to event subscriptions.

  

• Click on add bot user events.

  

• Add required bot event subscriptions for the bot.

  

• Now go to auth & permissions

  

• click on add an OAuth Scope under Bot Token Scopes section.

  

• Give necessary authorization and permission by selecting required OAuth scopes.

  

• Click on install to workspace to install your bot to your workspace.

  

• After installation, copy your Bot token and save it in a text file to use it later.

  

• Initiate your go project and install the shomali11/slacker package by using following commands

  go mod init github.com/usename/project-name
  go get "github.com/shomali11/slacker"
  

  

Running the bot

• Clone the repository.

• Replace App Token & Bot Token with your tokens.

• Open terminal and run go build

• run go run main.go and if you the result as shown in picture below, it mean bot is running and connected to slack

  

• Open your Slack Workspace then open any chat channel and mention the bot and say "my yob is ". The bot will give you the age.