Sarvgyan
By
@ronitserva
- 4 Devlogs
- 3 Total hours
A simple Slack bot that lets you run web search queries (using Tavily API) and sometimes tells you unfunny jokes.
Ship #1
Pending review
Sarvgyan is a slack bot built in python. It can do a small number of things like doing a web-search for you and returning a short AI summary result and sometimes tell you an unfunny joke. (For web-search and AI summary it Uses Tavily Search API)
Available commands with their features:
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/sarvgyan-ping: Responds with the latency.
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/sarvgyan-befunny: Tells a randomly sampled joke from a list of 5 jokes defined in the app. (btw the jokes are really unfunny)
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/sarvgyan-search : Lets you run web search for the given and returns a short AI summary result for the search
In a sense I would say figuring out the right resources to learn to use slack bolt for python was a challenge for me coz this time I wasn’t following the guide which used JS for bot logic, instead I relied on python which I find more comfortable to use. In this process Google AI mode was a help
Anther problem was figuring out how to get the app running 24/7 on nest using systemd.
For trying Sarvgyan out, you can visit the channel “#try-sarvgyan” (use project demo link). There you can use different commands and see it in action.
1h 8m 17s logged
30m 51s logged
Completed the basic mission requirements of the project
I wrapped up writing the handling logic of the last command for the bot: /sarvgyan-search which takes a query and returns an AI summar answer for the search.
For search, and AI answer I used the free tier of Tavily Search API. (It gives 1000 free req/month)
Next I intent to deploy it on nest to get it up and running 24/7
btw: here’s a search result screenshot from the bot:
1h 5m 59s logged
Completed logic for two slack commands
Before writing a single line of code I spent ~1hr learning how to use slack_bolt to register a command listener and how to write logic to perform actions on the command trigger using the decorator @app.command("/command") from the guide and web.
Using it I went on to programming actions for two commands:
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/sarvgyan-ping: returns latency for acknowledging command. -
/sarvgyan-befunny: Tells you a joke (which I must say doesn’t look like a joke 😅)
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Project Setup
I worked on setting up the project basics: github repo, installing slack_bolt package and all that.
For this project I’ve decided to not follow the guide and go on to build it on my own in python rather than JS coz I feel more comfortable in it.
I think I’ll be using the official slack guide to help me along the way to build the app in python:
