The itenium Slack Meme Bot® : Installation
posted in javascript on • by Van Schandevijl WouterYou want to post memes to Slack but who has time for that?
Time to automate this to avoid scrolling through your entire collection whenever
it is time to post one!
What it looks like
Requirements
itenium-be/slack-meme-poster
:
Install your own Slack Meme Bot now!
- A huge meme collection
- Docker
- Slack
That’s it, really!
Installation & Configuration
See README.md for step by step instructions.
git clone https://github.com/itenium-be/slack-meme-poster
cd slack-meme-poster
# Configure Slack webhook etc
cp .env.sample .env
# Schedule meme-posting!
docker-compose up --build -d
The .env contains:
- Location of your memes
- Forbidden?
chmod -R 755 memes_folder
- Forbidden?
- The Slack WebHook url (see below for instructions)
- Cron expression
- The default will post a meme once every friday
- Let the crontab.guru configure this for you
Slack WebHook Setup
Get yourself a Slack WebHook url, which looks like this:
https://hooks.slack.com/services/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
Follow their official instructions:
- Create An App
- Features > Incoming Webhooks
- Activate Incoming Webhooks
- Add New Webhook to Workspace
- Copy the url!
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