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Connects Slack and IRC channels by sending messages back and forth.
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How do I know what to use for Token? Mapping? #211

Closed s3w47m88 closed 6 years ago

s3w47m88 commented 6 years ago

Forgive my ignorance, but I'm using an IRC for the first time in Ubuntu 17.04 + GNOME 3.24. I'm trying to connect my IRC Channels to Slack via slack-irc but I'm unclear as to where I should generate a token from and what I'm mapping.

I don't see any documentation in the readme or Wiki for this that tell me:

  1. Where do I generate a Token from?
  2. What is the purpose of generating a Token?
  3. What is Mapping in the configuration file used for?

Thank you. Again, I apologize if this is not the correct outlet to post this question or if my question is invalidly formed.

ekmartin commented 6 years ago

The token is for a bot user, so that slack-irc can receive and send messages on the Slack you want to bridge. More info about bot users and how to create one (which will also give you a token) can be found here: https://api.slack.com/bot-users

The channel mapping is used to know which Slack channel is connected to which IRC channel. So if you have a channel named #general you want to bridge to an IRC channel named #talk you'd put something like "#general": "#talk" in your mapping.

s3w47m88 commented 6 years ago

Ok thank you!

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Closed #211 https://github.com/ekmartin/slack-irc/issues/211.

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