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gsingers / slack-jira-plugin

A Slack plugin that watches channels for messages about JIRA and acts accordingly
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Installation instructions need clarity #26

Closed stewsnooze closed 7 years ago

stewsnooze commented 8 years ago

Hi,

In the installation instructions I see it asks for a token and points at a URL on Slack.com

  token: 'XXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXX', // https://api.slack.com/web

However when going to Slack I can create apps which I assume is correct

I assume this doesn't use oauth, perhaps a bot user?

On the left hand side of this graphic we see options for an app like Bot users, app credentials e.t.c.

What do we do? I'm happy to make this a Pull Request when I figure out how to actually install it to improve first time installation if you could help?

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gsingers commented 8 years ago

Hi @stewsnooze

Hmm, perhaps Slack has changed their docs. I think they are now calling them Tester tokens: https://api.slack.com/docs/oauth-test-tokens. I haven't verified, but it's likely the case that by registering your app, you can also get a token: https://api.slack.com/web

-Grant

Tom-Gray commented 8 years ago

Maybe I'm misreading the question, but it seems like you need to create a bot token. You can create a bot for the RTM API here - https://.slack.com/apps/build/custom-integration

That will give you a bot user and importantly, a token that you need to authenticate with.