tinybot

A tiny wrapper around the slack RTM api.

Requirements

A slack bot token and node 4.2+.

What is included

• listen for any message in slack
• listen only for messages matching multiple fields
• deregister listeners matching a wildcard
• respond with text in a channel specified by name or ID

What is not included

• DM functionality
• At mentions
• Incoming/outgoing webhook integration
• Explicit API for adding reactions
• Message storage backend
• Reconnect logic
• Pretty much everything else

Usage

Hello World

var Tinybot = require('tinybot');
var bot = new Tinybot('mySecretSlackToken');
 
bot.say("Hello world");               // posts to #general by default
bot.say("Hello world", "#random");    // post to a channel by name
bot.say("Hello world", "C123456789"); // post to a channel by ID

Basic listener: fires for every message over slack websocket

var Tinybot = require('tinybot');
var bot     = new Tinybot('mySecretSlackToken');
 
bot.on('message', function(message) {
  // message contains unedited message from slack websocket
  bot.say(`Message received: ${JSON.stringify(message)}`);
})

Filtered listeners

 
var Tinybot = require('tinybot');
var bot     = new Tinybot('mySecretSlackToken', '#random');
 
// listen for only messages in a channel
bot.hears({channel: '#general'}, function() {
  bot.say("I heard that!", '#general')
})
 
// rain on everyone's parade with regex matches
bot.hears({channel: '#general', text: /I love (.*)/}, function foo(message, matches) {
  bot.say(`${matches[1]} sucks`);
})
 
// trolls anyone who posts in #random from an iPhone with nested matchers
bot.hears({channel: '#random', "file.name": /Slack for iOS/}, function fooBar(message) {
  bot.say("ooooh, fancy", '#random');
})
 
// snooze one meeting with hearsOnce
bot.hearsOnce({channel: '#sales', text: /meeting/}, function() {
  bot.say("let's circle back and put a pin in this. I'm gonna take a quick 5", '#sales');
})
 
bot.drop(/foo.*/); // deregister functions named foo and fooBar
bot.drop(/.*/);    // deregister all listeners