A Slack bot (slack.com)

Slackard listens to the configured channel and is capable of responding to message events occurring in that channel.

See the included slackard.yaml configuration file for supported options. All are required except boticon and botemoji, which are both optional. If both are provided then botemoji will override boticon (per the Slack API).

A basic plugin system enables you to add whatever functionality you need to your bot. You may wish for it to respond to particular commands, or to listen for certain words, or even watch the entire channel conversation.

Slackard provides decorators supporting 3 types of registration to suit your need. In all cases the only messages passed will be those not produced by the bot itself. This is to avoid getting stuck in message read-respond loops. A plugin always receives the complete message object (as of v2.0.0).

Examples are included in the plugins directory.

This provider allows you to process specific commands directed at the bot by name. eg. If the configuration set a botnick of 'slack', then 'slack: say Hello world' would pass 'Hello world' to anything that has subscribed to the command 'say'.

@bot.command('say')
def command_say(args, message):
    bot.speak('You asked me to say, "{0}"'.format(args))

The plugin subscribes to a particular pattern. This is any pattern that can be passed through re.compile, and is applied to each message received by the bot. If a message matches then the entire message is passed.

@bot.subscribe('cookie')
def sub_cookie(message):
    bot.speak('I see a cookie in "{0}"'.format(message['text']))

The plugin receives a full feed of channel traffic.

@bot.firehose
def listen(message):
    # Do something with `message`
    pass

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