Greetings Slackers

This simple script written in basic Python will allow you to hook into the real time API of Slack and perform a direct message greeting to every new joiner! It can also send a message about the Code of Conduct of your community, store and retrieve quotes as well as store URLs shared in the channels that the bot is invited to.

This is a fork of https://github.com/orliesaurus/greetingslack

Requirements

Python 3.7+

Installation

git clone <thisgitrepo>
cd <thisgitrepo>
virtualenv greetingslack
. greetingslack/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python bot.py &

Q&A

Q1. How do you change the welcome message?

A1. To change the welcome message, expose WELCOME_MESSAGE or WELCOME_FILE env variable

Q2. How to store a quote

A2. Use !add quote goes here

Q3. How to get a random quote

A3. Use !quote

Q4. How to get a quote containing a keyword (foobar)

A4. Use !quote foobar

Q5. How to get a specific quote id (123)

A5. Use !quote id:123