carrots

Carrots

Golang KudosBot for Slack

Installation

• Setup the Bots app for you slack workspace: https://app.slack.com/apps/A0F7YS25R-bots?next_id=0, save the token somewhere secret

• Create the MySQL db, I have included the commands I used

• Update the carrots.json file

• Build the app

  go get github.com/rgarth/carrots
  go build github.com/rgarth/carrots
  cp $GOPATH/src/github.com/rgarth/carrots/carrots.json ./
  

• Run the app

  SLACKTOKEN=[SLACK-TOKEN] MYSQLPASS=[DB-PASSWORD] ./carrots
  

• Invite the bot to your channel

Configuration

All config options are in carrots.json. "Limits", is the number of emoji a user can send in a calendar month, -1 removes the limit

Usage

Commands

@kudos help Get help, only visible to the message sender
@kudos ladder Print the monthly leaderboard
@kudos me Print your personal monthly stats, only visible to the message sender

Sending Kudos

@<person> <emoji>
or
<emoji> @<person1> @<person2>
or
Some <emoji> <emoji> are due to @<person> for being awesome