Fun Bot
By
@vashi_21
- 2 Devlogs
- 2 Total hours
This bot isn’t slacking off, it replies to messages 24/7!
Ship #1
Pending review
I made Chalant-Bot-21, a persistent slack bot running 24/7 on a linux cloud instance!
It contains interactive slash commands for cat facts, dog pics for dog lovers, fun activities suggestion, and daily NASA’s APOD , the commands for all these are -
- /chalant-bot-21-catfact
- /chalant-bot-21-dog
- /chalant-bot-21-activity
- /chalant-bot-21-nasa
Some other cool features about my bot are some of these hype and utility commands - - /chalant-bot-21-ping
- /chalant-bot-21-namaste
- /chalant-bot-21-hype
- /chalant-bot-21-help
You can test it out in slack by typing “ /chalant-bot-21-help “ and see all the options.
The hard part about making this process was probably getting the background systemd service properly configured so it stays alive 24/7 but with the help of the guide I got through that.
Feeling super proud that socket mode is locked in and it responds instantly without dropping!!!!
Today I got my .env file written and locked down without breaking a sweat. Also I wired up my system service so my bot runs 24/7 in the background without need to open my terminal also coded and pushed fresh nasa, catfact, dog, activity commands onto my codebase which are now very cool special feature of my bot. Finally updated my help menu and successfully restarted the service so everything’s synced and ready to go!!
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Today I started building a Slack bot from scratch using the provided guide’s help. I setup .env security to protect API tokens also dodged all the sneaky hyphen vs underscore command errors in the Slack API dashboard. I also coded a whole menu of custom slash commands including ping latency checkers, namaste greetings, and hype generators. Also levelled up by pulling live API data with Axios to drop random cat facts directly into Slack channels. Super fun so far!!!
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