slack-age-bot

Slack Age Calculator Bot

Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
• Usage
• MIT License

About

The Slack Age Calculator Bot is a simple Slack bot that calculates a user's age based on their year of birth. The bot listens for a specific command in Slack, processes the input, and returns the user's age. This project demonstrates how to use the Slacker library for building Slack bots in Go, as well as handling environment variables and context management.

Getting Started

These instructions will help you set up and run the Slack Age Calculator Bot on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

To run this project, you'll need the following:

• Go (Golang) installed on your machine.
• A Slack workspace with a bot token and app token.
• The godotenv package for managing environment variables.
• The slacker package for interacting with the Slack API.

To install the required Go packages, run:

go get -u github.com/joho/godotenv
go get -u github.com/shomali11/slacker

Installing

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/daking24/slack-age-bot.git
   cd slack-age-calculator-bot
   

2. Create a .env file:

   SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=your-slack-bot-token
   SLACK_APP_TOKEN=your-slack-app-token
   

   Replace your-slack-bot-token and your-slack-app-token with your actual Slack tokens.

3. Run the application:

   go run main.go
   

   The bot will start listening for the command my year-of-birth is <year> in your Slack workspace. When you provide a year, the bot will respond with your calculated age.

Usage

To use the Slack Age Calculator Bot, invite it to a Slack channel and type the following command:

my year-of-birth is 1998

The bot will reply with your age based on the current year (2024).

You can customize the bot's behavior by modifying the command definition in the main.go file. For example, you could add new commands or change the age calculation logic. The printCommandEvents function also logs command events to the console, which can be useful for debugging.