oscardhdz/slack-cronbot repository overview

⁠Slack cronbot

Start a bot to send scheduled message to your slack channel.

⁠Before you start

Be sure to have a web hook installed at your slack subdomain. You'll need you'r own team's Webhook URL

For more information check: Incoming Webhooks API⁠

⁠Getting started

You can start using this bot either as:

1. Standalone NodeJS App
2. Heroku
3. Docker Container

⁠Standalone NodeJS

1. Install dependencies

npm install

1. Create a json at ./configs/config.json with the next data:

{
  "SLACK_HOOK_URL": "someUrl",
  "SLACK_MESSAGE": "Hello World!",
  "SLACK_CHANNEL": "#random",
  "CRON_TIME": "0 * * * * *"
}

1. Start your Bot!

npm start

⁠Heroku

1. Configure your Environment Variables. (Check Environment references)
2. Let It start!

⁠Docker Container

The local Dockerfile is used at the Docker Hub Official Registry⁠.

Just run:

docker run -e NODE_ENV=production SLACK_HOOK_URL={yourSlackWebHookUrl} -e SLACK_MESSAGE={messageToBeSent} -e SLACK_CHANNEL={channelId(s)/Name(s)} -e CRON_TIME={yourCronTime} -v /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime oscardhdz/slack-cronbot

You might want to be aware of container timezone issues. I reommend binding time paths between conatiner and host with:

-v /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime

⁠Expected Output

If set up correctly, you should get an output like this (Preview available at Github):

⁠Environment References Table