Slapbot

Do you remember that great IRC times when you can just type

/slap Josh

..and it will slap him real good!

Well why not recreate that joyfull momements again in a modern IRC service Slack! Now with some friendly banter included!

Installation

• Clone the repo
• Run npm install
• Run node server.js

Ok, great job, but this is not that usefull since you will need to host this somewhere in order to configure Slack to use it.

I recommend running the server with PM2 and frontend it with Nginx or similar.

PM2 configuration .json should look like this one:

{
  "name" : "slapbot",
  "script" : "server.js",
  "cwd" : "<path_to_cloned_repo>",
  "env" :
   {
        "PORT":8090,
   }
}

Usage in Slack

Simply type:

/slap Josh

This will tell slapbot to give Josh a big ol' slap with a fish emoji. You can also supply your own emoji by typing:

/slap Josh :hot_pepper:

In this example, Josh will be slapped by the emoji :hot_pepper:. Ouch!

Or yes you can use actual emoji (if on Mac) and type something like:

/slap Josh 🍗

By default, the bot will also include some banter at the end. Read on to learn how to configure this.

Configuration

• Go to Slack services section https://<your_slack_team>.slack.com/services/new.
• From there find Slash Command and add a command like /slap [username]. Put in the URL your service url or you can use ours -> http://slapbot.spfr.co/slap.

Now you have a working bot with whom you can interact, but it is a private communication between you and him, so you could say that it is not that fun. Let's make it more fun!

• Go to All Integrations screen again and add Incoming Webhook
• Choose any channel to post to (don't worry, bot will use the channel you type in when you do your slapping)
• Copy and paste tha token part of the URL that you got (it will be something like : https://hooks.slack.com/services/sadaUSh12/s218jS/ajd123
• Take the part after services, as in the above example it will be -> /sadaUSh12/s218jS/ajd123
• Go back to Slash Command and edit the URL to add the token part from above so it should be at the end something like http://slapbot.spfr.co/slap?callback=/sadaUSh12/s218jS/ajd123.

BTW replace slapbot.spfr.co with your url, or feel free to use this one.

Configuring the bot behaviour

• To edit the random banter strings, change the banterArray variable in helpers.js.
• To remove the banter, remove the banter variable from the text property of botPayload in server.js.
• To change the bot name or icon, change the user_name and icon_emoji property of botPayload in server.js.
• To change the default emoji, change the DEFAULT_EMOJI variable in constants.js.

Congratulations, enjoy slapping!