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codebuddies / greetbot

Slackbot for greeting new codebuddies users
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Respond to "unclassified" messages #13

Open lpatmo opened 6 years ago

lpatmo commented 6 years ago

If users type a message back to greetbot, we should respond and inform them that they're typing to a bot.

BethanyG commented 6 years ago

Will need to do a bit more research here, but generally, I think we'll need to do the following:

1) Subscribe the bot_user to app_mention in the Slack /events API (See: https://api.slack.com/bot-users) 2) Add the incoming message for the bot to the generic method that parses /events in the CodeBuddies app 3) Add a method to respond to the message, based on it's flag or content or other criteria. In this case, it would be an "unclassified" message - so maybe this can be set up as a default case in a switch statement that handles any messages addressed directly to the bot. 4) A basic bot reply will be required to open a websocket with the RTM API by sending an authenticated call to the rtm.connect API method (See: https://api.slack.com/rtm). chat.postEphemeral might also be useful in this context (https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postEphemeral). If it's decided that a more complicated (or emoji-tastic ) response is needed, then the bot will need to use the Web API method chat.postMessage (https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage).

As for messages. Something along the lines of:

Thanks for your reply, but I'm only a humble bot. Please post in #codebuddies-meta or #general to interact with human community members. ❤️