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Building Slackbots from Scratch

Building Slackbots from Scratch

This was presented at the ForLoopWomen 2.0 on the 23rd of September, 2017. It focuses on guiding anyone who wants to take a look at building slackbots.

Omolara Adejuwon

September 23, 2017
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  1. Building Slack Bots From Scratch
    23rd, September, 2017
    Omolara Adejuwon
    @_larikraun

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  2. Bots? What are those?

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  3. Bots are built to automate some certain tasks. They are
    expected to deliver the tasks faster and better than humans.
    They can come in whatever form you deem fit e.g chatbots,
    crawlers, informational bots, entertainment bots.

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  4. Let’s drill down to chatbots

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  5. Chatbots are built to simulate real conversations. They are built on
    predefined instructions, keywords and analysis.
    Many of them live on existing communication tools like Slack, Messenger,
    Skype and many more.
    We have also seen many of them on the ‘Live Chat’ sections of many
    websites. They are everywhere.

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  6. How does Slack come in?

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  7. Slack Internal Integrations
    Incoming Webhooks Slash commands
    Bot users

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  8. Slack Bot Users
    They are special kinds of users that observe & respond to conversational
    interactions in channels and direct messages. They can do almost everything a
    regular slack user can do.
    Bot users ride on Slack’s Web API, Events API and RTM API.

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  9. To get started, you need
    ● A slack workspace
    ● A bot user that has been integrated to your workspace
    ● An API token
    ● A knowledge of a server side language
    ● API.AI - if you need some level of natural language processing (NLP).
    ● A server to host your files

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  10. Slack allows you listen to events and triggers. Your app logic then how
    your bot responds to each of the events you have subscribed to.
    All the events available are here

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  11. Resources
    ● Slack’s API docs. https://api.slack.com/
    ● API.AI docs https://api.ai/docs/getting-started/basics
    ● There are some reliable open source slack clients in different languages e.g
    BotKit(NodeJS), PHP Slack Client, Python Slack Client

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  12. Let’s build a simple slack bot
    Link to Repo: https://github.com/larikraun/slackbotdemo

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  13. Thank you
    https://github.com/larikraun

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