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💼 Slack Bot

🖼️ Template Setup

• Fork this replit template.
• Set your OPENAI_API_KEY in Secrets.
• Create a workspace on Slack if you don't have one already by clicking here.
• Create a new App on your Slack account by going here.
• Select From Scratch, then enter the Bot Name and select your workspace.
• On the Basic Information page copy the Signing Secret and set it in your secrets as SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET.
• On the left Sidebar, go to OAuth and Permissions and add the following scopes under Bot Token Scopes:

app_mentions:read
channels:history
channels:read
chat:write

• Now select the option Install to Workspace and after it's done, copy the Bot User OAuth Token and set it in your secrets as SLACK_BOT_TOKEN.
• Start your replit container now by clicking on Run.
• On the Slack API website go to Event Subscriptions on the left Sidebar and turn on Enable Events.
• Copy the generated server URL in replit, append /chat at its end and paste it in Request URL box.
• After it gets verified, click on Subscribe to bot events, add message.channels Bot User Event and click on Save Changes.
• Now go to your workspace, click on the bot name in the Sidebar and then add the bot to any channel you want.

🚀 Usage Instructions

• Go to the channel where you have added your bot.
• To add data sources to the bot, use the command:

add <data_type> <url_or_text>

• To ask queries from the bot, use the command:

query <question>

🎉 Happy Chatting! 🎉