slash-profile

Slack's custom profile fields are great! But looking them up takes a while. What if it were this easy?

This is the code that backs them all: /github, /house, /pronoun, and /twitter, currently.

Configuration

To add a new slash-profile backed slack command:

1. Find the field ID. The easiest way to do that is to use the Slack API tester, setting include_labels to 1. You want the path to the desired field, slash-separated, e.g. email or fields/Xf0??????? for custom fields.
2. Add a Slack slash command, with your chosen name. Point it at POST https://slack-profile.appspot.com/<field path>. I like to set the name to profile-bot and the icon to :robot_face:, and add a help message and description. Note down the token.
3. Add the token to the set secrets.tokens. If you haven't already, add a slack API token as secrets.slack_bot_token. Redeploy the app (see below).
4. ???
5. :party_dino:

Dev & deploy

You'll need gcloud with the App Engine components installed, and the App Engine SDK. To deploy, make deploy. Ask @benkraft for access.