Slack Machine is a simple, yet powerful and extendable Slack bot framework. More than just a bot, Slack Machine is a framework that helps you develop your Slack workspace into a ChatOps powerhouse. Slack Machine is built with an intuitive plugin system that lets you build bots quickly, but also allows for easy code organization. A plugin can look as simple as this:
from machine.plugins.base import MachineBasePlugin
from machine.plugins.message import Message
from machine.plugins.decorators import respond_to
class DeploymentPlugin(MachineBasePlugin):
"""Deployments"""
@respond_to(r"deploy (?P<application>\w+) to (?P<environment>\w+)")
async def deploy(self, msg: Message, application, environment):
"""deploy <application> <environment>: deploy application to target environment"""
await msg.say(f"Deploying {application} to {environment}")
Plugin initialization is now async (v0.35.0)
The optional initialization method plugins can implement, which is run once when the plugin is loaded, should be an async method starting the upcoming v0.35.0. The reason for this is that this allows plugins to interact with Slack through the Slack Machine's plugin API - most of which methods are async.
Simply prefix your init()
methods with async
.
Dropped support for Python 3.7 (v0.34.0)
As of v0.34.0, support for Python 3.7 has been dropped. Python 3.7 has reached end-of-life on 2023-06-27.
AsyncIO (v0.30.0)
As of v0.30.0 Slack Machine dropped support for the old backend based on the RTM API. As such, Slack Machine is now fully based on AsyncIO. This means plugins written before the rewrite to asyncio aren't supported anymore. See here for a migration guide to get your old plugins working with the new version of Slack Machine.
It's really easy!
You can install Slack Machine using pip:
$ pip install slack-machine
or add it to your Poetry project:
poetry add slack-machine
It is strongly recommended that you install slack-machine
inside a
virtual environment!
Create a directory for your Slack Machine bot: mkdir my-slack-bot && cd my-slack-bot
Add a local_settings.py
file to your bot directory: touch local_settings.py
Create a new app in Slack: https://api.slack.com/apps
Choose to create an app from an App manifest
Copy/paste the following manifest: manifest.yaml
Add the Slack App and Bot tokens to your local_settings.py
like this:
SLACK_APP_TOKEN = "xapp-my-app-token"
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN = "xoxb-my-bot-token"
Start the bot with slack-machine
...
Profit!
You can find the documentation for Slack Machine here: https://dondebonair.github.io/slack-machine/
Go read it to learn how to properly configure Slack Machine, write plugins, and more!