CommandlineFu Slackbot

This is a simple slackbot based that fetches search results from commandlinefu.com and displays them in slack. It is based on the instructions given here.

Setup

Navigate to the source directory and install the dependencies with pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

The slackbot requires a valid slack API token. This can be accomplished here.

You can supply this token either by directly editing slackbot/core.py, or by setting the environment variable: CLFU_SLACKBOT_TOKEN (this is recommended).

Running the bot

All you need to do to run the bot is execute run.py from the server of your choice.

Interacting with the thing

Once the script says it's successfully connected to Slack, check the user list to see if the bot is online. If so, invite it to whichever channels you want the bot to work in. Or you can just DM the bot directly. Now let's try it, type:

• clfu convert video

clfu is the trigger the bot is listening for, and anything that comes after it is your search string. You should get back some results for command line one-liners related to converting video. Try searching for other stuff too. CLFU is a really good repository for cool complicated things you can do from the command line. This bot will come in handy for nerds.