linkbot

Slackbot to bind message fragments to external links

Linkbot can run anyhere. To get it running, just create its configuration module, linkconfig.py, and supply the following module variables:

Example linkconfig.py

API_TOKEN='_API_Token_generated_from_your_Slack_instance_'
UW_SAML_CREDENTIALS = ('_low-privilege-username_', '_password_')
SERVICE_NOW_CREDENTIALS = ('_api-account_', '_api-key_')
LINKBOTS = [
    {
        'LINK_CLASS': 'JiraLinkBot',
        'HOST': 'https://jira.example.com',
        'AUTH': UW_SAML_CREDENTIALS
    },
    {
        'LINK_CLASS': 'ServiceNowBot',
        'HOST': 'https://XXXX.service-now.com',
        'AUTH': SERVICE_NOW_CREDENTIALS
    }
]

See Slack Help for guidance on generating the value for API_TOKEN

The LINKBOTS list can be any number of dicts supplying, minimally, a MATCH and LINK key.

MATCH is a regular expression that defines what to look for in Slack messages.

LINK provides the link and link text linkbot uses in its response. The format consists of a link and link text enclosed in angle brackets and separated by the pipe character as in the example above. Two instances of print format characters, %s, are used by linkbot to insert the matched text in the SLACK message in the first, and a randomly selected quip in the second.

It's a pretty simple little script. Pull requests are welcome!