nextdoor/alphabot repository overview

⁠Alpha Bot

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Open source python bot to chat with Slack <https://slack.com/>_ and, eventually, other platforms.

Inspired by Hubot <https://hubot.github.com/>. Alphabot is written in Tornado <http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/> combining the power of Python <https://www.python.org/>_ with the speed of coroutines.

⁠Installation

Raw:

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git clone https://github.com/Nextdoor/alphabot.git
cd alphabot
pip install -e .

Docker:

.. code-block:: bash

docker run nextdoor/alphabot

⁠Running the bot

If you installed alphabot as a python package then simply run it:

.. code-block:: bash

alphabot -S alphabot/sample-scripts/  # or...
alphabot -S path/to/your/scripts/

.. code-block:: bash

export SLACK_TOKEN=xoxb-YourToken
alphabot --engine slack -S path/to your/scripts/

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