fomobot

FOMOBot

"never fear of missing out on Slack freebies again!"

FOMOBot is a Slack bot that will let you know if there is something going on that you should know about.

If enough users "emoji response" to a message in a channel within a certain time period, FOMOBot will drop a message in a notification channel to let you know. This is the only channel you need to pay attention to (via pop up alerts etc)

why?

There are too many public channels and I do not like watching them all, and when everyone is off to a party or eating free cake I get annoyed at the "didn't you see the message in Slack?"

How

This app is written to run as a Lambda function or as a long running service

• use ngrok and put url in slack admin page

• uses user permissions to read reactions from all public channels, need to test if this includes channels user is not in

• needs write access as bot, but the bot will need to be in the channel that it wants to write to

• test verification challenge GOOS=linux go build -o bin/handler && docker run --rm -ti -v $(pwd):/var/task:ro,delegated -e DOCKER_LAMBDA_DEBUG=true lambci/lambda:go1.x bin/handler "$(cat example_funcurl_challenge.json)"

• test reaction added GOOS=linux go build -o bin/handler && docker run --rm -ti -v $(pwd):/var/task:ro,delegated -e DOCKER_LAMBDA_DEBUG=true lambci/lambda:go1.x bin/handler "$(cat example_funcurl_event.json)"

• deploy GOOS=linux go build -o main && zip function.zip main && av exec personal -- aws lambda update-function-code --function-name fomobot --zip-file fileb://function.zip

leave a channel

you can request fomobot to remove iteself from a channel curl -H Authentication: <same as AUTH_TOKEN env var" https://<fomobot>/leave?channel=<channelId>