https://trello.com/b/iAvdXVNU/harold-bot

A simple slack bot which will ask a random member of the #under30s channel a random question

Runs Monday to Friday at 10.15am AEDT

Project is deployed using the serverless framework.

Harold runs as a nodeJS Lambda which is triggered on a Cron Schedule. He uses the groups.info Slack API to retrieve a list of user's for a channel and then sends a question to the channel via a webhook. You can access Harold's slack integration options from here: https://api.slack.com/apps/A81E1D9U1 If you do not have access PM @sean on Slack to be added as a contributor.

The list of questions is provided as a separate text file resource to the main application logic.

Since the groups.info returns all members of a group, it will also return inactive users and bots. Harold has a simple blacklist mechanism which takes an array of userID's and reselects a user if a blacklisted user is chosen. To blacklist a user, simply add their userID to the memberBlacklist array in handler.js.

An additional script is supplied called ID_checker.js which retrieves the name and userID of all members in a channel to aid with determining members' userIDs.

The ID checker app can be run locally with:

node ID_checker.js

To deploy harold, configure serverless credentials locally and then run:

sls deploy --aws-profile default --verbose

This is a quick and dirty script, there is no secrets management here. As such, secrets are removed during git commits and will need to be manually updated when doing a serverless deploy. Before performing a sls deploy please ensure you have updated the TOKEN and WEBHOOK_URL variables in the top of handler.js (and ID_checker.js)

TOKEN constant is the Oauth token