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@Manenti on Manenti Slack Bot · about 1 month ago

I made Manenti Slack BOT, a Slack bot built with Slack Bolt that adds fun and useful slash commands to a workspace. It can send random cat images, search Pokémon information, find anime details, show random memes, fetch jokes and quotes, and display the current weather for a city using `/manenti-weather [city]`.

The most challenging part was connecting each command to a different external API, because every API has its own structure, response format, parameters, and error cases. I had to understand how each one worked and then adapt the data into clean Slack messages using blocks and slash command responses.

I am proud of this project because it is the first bot I have ever built. It helped me learn a lot about Slack Bolt, environment variables, API keys, external API integration, and keeping a bot running 24/7 on a server.

To test the project, join the demo Slack workspace/channel and try the available slash commands. Some examples are `/manenti-help`, `/manenti-cat`, `/manenti-pokemon pikachu`, `/manenti-anime naruto`, `/manenti-meme`, and `/manenti-weather Videira`. The bot is deployed on Nest, so it should stay online for reviewers to test.

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@Manenti on Manenti Slack Bot · about 1 month ago

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I added two new commands to Manenti Slack BOT: /manenti-meme and /manenti-weather [city].

The /manenti-meme command fetches a random meme using the Imgflip API and displays it directly inside Slack with a clean image block. I also added /manenti-weather [city], which uses WeatherAPI to show the current weather for any city the user types, including temperature, weather condition, humidity, wind speed, and feels-like temperature.

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@Manenti on Manenti Slack Bot · about 2 months ago

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I created the commands “/manenti-quote” and “/manenti-joke”, they serve to launch stoic phrases and tell all sorts of jokes.

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@Manenti on Manenti Slack Bot · about 2 months ago

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I added two commands to search for Pokémon and anime using APIs.

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@Manenti on Manenti Slack Bot · about 2 months ago

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Creating the Project. I configured the settings on the Slack API website, then started coding the project, installing dependencies and creating the first three commands: “/manenti-hw”, “/manenti-help”, and “/manenti-cat”.