Boten - python bot for slack

Write a new bot

lets look at an example (funBot):

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from boten import core


class Bot(core.BaseBot):

    def command_make_me_laugh(self):
        page = BeautifulSoup(requests.post('http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/random').content)
        post_content = page.find("div", {"class": "item_content"})
        yield unicode(page.find('div', {"class": "post_title"}).find('a').contents[0])
        yield post_content.find('img')['src']

now, if someone will type /fun make_me_laugh (or even /fun mak as boten matches prefix) he will send funny post from devopsreactions

Parsing args - Mandatory args

Create a new function and ask for args, Boten will validate the user input for you.

    def command_ping(self, user_name):
        yield "pong {}".format(user_name)

/fun ping will fail with error message of

*Function name:​ /ping
​Mandatory args are:​ user_name
​Optional args are:*​

Parsing args - Optional args

    def command_ping(self, user_name="default"):
        yield "pong {}".format(user_name)

/fun ping will send pong default
but /fun ping user_name=moshe will send pong moshe

Sending messages to slack

you can yield for messages while running, if you want to send message with slide colors you need to use core.SlackMessage

yield core.SlackMessage()
        .icon(':low_brightness:')
        .username('jenkinsBot')
        .text("unitTests failure", color="danger")

help messages

Simply /fun help, /fun ping help

Add bot

1. create python file under bots_available
2. link from bots_available to bots_enabled
3. add new slash command in slack ui - Integrations