The SmartHome Slack Bot is an interactive Slack app that enables users to query product information from a database that was specifically created by scraping a subsection of data from the 'Smart Home' section of the Home Depot website.

The bot allows querying by:

• Product ID - id: product_id_number(found in a parenthesis just before product name)
• Product Category - cat:category_name
• Product Brand - brand:brand_name

Additionally, it supports the following Slack slash commands:

• /brands - Lists all available brands
• /categories - Lists all available categories

• Bot Token Scopes: chat:write, channels:history, commands

• pip3 install slackclient for slack sdk
• pip3 install python-dotenv for python-dotenv
• pip3 install slackeventsapi for slackeventsapi
• pip3 install flask for flask

• Install ngrok:https://ngrok.com/download
• run ngrok http 5002 to start ngrok and copy the https url
• paste the url in the request url field when you enable events under events subscriptions followed by "/slack/events"
• save changes and reinstall app into work place

• Set the environment variables in .env file(Slack bot token and sign secret):
  SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=YOUR_BOT_USER_OAuth_Token
  SIGN_SECRET=YOUR_SIGNING_SECRET
• Run the bot: python3 main.py
• Open your Slack workspace, add bot to a channel and start interacting with the bot.

• Flask - A lightweight WSGI web application framework.
• Slack SDK for Python - This allows for interaction with the Slack API.
• Slackeventsapi - This allows the bot to use the Events API.
• python-dotenv - This allows the application to use environment variables from a .env file.
• os - This provides functions for interacting with the operating system. Contributing