phial

A lightweight framework for building slack bots

Phial is a slack bot framework, modelled loosely on flask.

Table of Contents

• Usage
• Install
• Contribute
• Licenses

Usage

Python:

from phial import Phial, command, Response

bot = Phial('---slack token here---')

@bot.command('greet <name>')
def greet(name):
    '''A command with an argument which replies to a message'''
    return "Hello {0}".format(name)

bot.run()

Slack:

By default the bot requires a prefix of ! before its commands. This can be changed in the config.

youruser:
> !greet jim
bot:
> Hello Jim

Features:

• Decorator based command definition
• Send messages to slack
• Reply to messages in a thread
• Reply to messages with a reaction
• Upload Files

Examples of commands utilising these features can be found in the examples folder

Install

$ pip install phial-slack

Contribute

If a feature is missing, or you can improve the code please submit a PR or raise an Issue

Licenses

phial - MIT © 2019 James Seden Smith

Erlenmeyer Flask by Iconic from the Noun Project - CC BY 3.0 (used in examples/phial.png)