slackoverflow

A Slack bot for your stackoverflow needs.

Table of Contents

1. Features
2. Integration
3. Usage
4. Development
5. Contributing
6. Contributors
7. License

Features

• Pulls the top answer of the most relevant question matching your query.

Integration

Head over to http://adamhe.me/slack-bots/ and click on the Add to Slack button to add slackoverflow into your team!

Usage

• Open Slack, either browser or desktop.
• In any channel, mention the bot along with a question that you want to ask on stackoverflow, e.g @slackoverflow how does a es6 promise work? You can also direct message the bot directly if you don't want to clutter a channel.

Development

1. Create an app on slack.
2. Obtain your api token.
3. Add your api token into your environment as SLACK_API_TOKEN.
4. git clone this repository.
5. pip install -r requirements.txt to install all the dependencies. Note for Google-Search-API, you might have to get it from the github repository if pip install doesn't work
6. Add the bot into any Slack teams (most likely one that you made for testing/developing).
7. Run the bot via python slackoverflow.py and have fun developing!

Contributing

Contributing Guide

Contributors

Contribuors

License

MIT License