slack-traductor

Slack bot to translate chat messages of any language into specified language

Why?

Because we are an international team and sometimes I don't understand what they all are talking about.

Usage

Traductor is using Microsoft Translator API, because it's free 😅

1. Get Translator API account

2. Create Slack bot

3. Rename .env.example file into .env and fill in values in fields

   BOT_NAME=slack_bot_name
   BOT_TOKEN=slack_bot_token
   BOT_AS_USER=1
   CLIENT_ID=microsoft_translator_client_id
   CLIENT_SECRET=microsoft_translator_client_secret
   TRANSLATE_TO=en
   ADD_MESSAGE=message_to_append
   SUSPEND_TIMEOUT=600000

   • BOT_NAME — bot name given when you create a bot
   • BOT_TOKEN — a token which you will receive after creating a bot
   • BOT_AS_USER — pass true to post the message as the authed user
   • CLIENT_ID — take it from your Translator API account
   • CLIENT_SECRET — take it from your Translator API account
   • TRANSLATE_TO — translate messages to specified language, check lang codes in lib/lang_codes.js
   • ADD_MESSAGE — specify the message you want to add to every translation, check the screenshot above.
   • SUSPEND_TIMEOUT — the time period in ms while the bot will not translate messages

4. Install dependencies of a project

   $ npm i

5. Start server

   $ npm start

Chat commands

@traductor: stop — suspend the bot for 10 minutes in current channel/group