With the help of slacks API we can call postMessage and see our bot come to life 🤖 🦾 🦿ĭeploying will allow us to run the bot independently from our machine. We also need to pass in the user's token (in our case it's our own token). I saw the as_user option but setting it to true was not enough. ⚡️Īt first, I didn't really find out what was missing to make it work. Only then do we send the massage and set isSentToday to true, That way, we'll only send once a day. We didn't already send a message today.If the current hour is 8 am, we check that:.

In order to send every day we need to check if we need to send or not, every period of time (I chose every half an or so), and we can achieve that with the setTimeout function.

Why random you ask? because we can't have them know it's a bot.👻

Now we can get to the juicy part: actually sending the message and timing it so that it will happen at a random time each workday. A quick recap: We've managed to pick a random emoji and gif, and avoid sending the message on the weekend and on days off. 👾Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode I also considered a set list of gifs, stored in a JSON file, but fetching on the fly is more fun. Well… that’s for giving this emoji a higher chance to be picked.Īfter all, it’s the most appropriate emoji IMO.įor picking a random item from a list I use the pick function:

You might be wondering why there are several instances of the sun emoji ☀️. Send every workday - not including holidays.Get a random emoji from the emoji list.I started small to give myself time to get acquainted with slack's framework: everything worked gave me the OK to start thinking about how to achieve the goal: Send a good morning message every workday (as myself). After coming up with the idea, I started with a simple app: An app that squares up a number it gets from the user.

Post gif in slack