Building Slack Bots电子书

Building Slack Bots

Table of Contents

Building Slack Bots

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Why subscribe?

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Slack

Introduction to Slack

Slack as a platform

The end goal

Summary

2. Your First Bot

Preparing your environment

Installing Node.js

Installing the development tools using NPM

Creating a new project

Creating a Slack API token

Connecting a bot

Joining a channel

Sending a message to a channel

The slack object

Getting all the channels

Getting all members in a channel

Sending a message to a channel

Basic responses

The authenticated event

Using the message event

Avoiding spam

Sending a direct message

Restricting access

Adding and removing admins

Debugging a bot

Summary

3. Adding Complexity

Responding to keywords

Using classes

Reactive bots

Bot commands

Sanitizing inputs

External API integration

Error handling

Summary

4. Using Data

Introduction to Redis

Installing Redis

Mac OS X

Windows

Unix

Connecting to Redis

Saving and retrieving data

Connecting bots

Dynamic storage

Hashes, lists, and sets

Hashes

Lists

Sets

Sorted sets

Best practices

Simple to-do example

Summary

5. Understanding and Responding to Natural Language

A brief introduction to natural language

Fundamentals of NLP

Tokenizers

Stemmers

String distance

Inflection

Displaying data in a natural way

When to use NLP?

Mentions

Classifiers

Using trained classifiers

Natural language generation

When should we use natural language generation?

The uncanny valley

Summary

6. Webhooks and Slash Commands

Webhooks

Incoming webhooks

Outgoing webhooks

Slash commands

In-channel and ephemeral responses

Using webhooks and slash commands

Summary

7. Publishing Your App

The Slack app directory

Registering your app and obtaining tokens

Understanding the OAuth process

Scopes

Submitting your app to the app directory

Monetizing your bot

Summary

Further reading

Index