Slack IPython bot 🤯

One Slack bot to rule them all. PyBot. Just send Python code as a message.

Install

pip install slack-ipython

To start the bot, simply run:

slack-ipython

For detailed output, add DEBUG=true as an environment variable.

Create a .env (or set these environment variables yourself).

SLACK_APP_TOKEN="xapp-..."
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN="xoxb-..."
APPROVED_SLACK_MEMBER_IDS="U01LXXXXXX,U01LXXXXXXX"

Security warning: this effectively gives full access to wherever you run this. Make sure you only add Slack member IDs of people you trust.

Deploy on Heroku

Configure your Slack app

First create a new Slack app in the Slack app dashboard.

Your Slack app needs to have:

• [Settings -> Basic Information -> App-Level Tokens]
  • Create a bot token
    • connections:write
  • (Optional) configure app icon.
• [Settings -> Socket Mode]
  • Socket mode enabled
• [Features -> App Home]
  • Messages Tab enabled
• [Features -> App Home -> Show Tabs]
  • "Allow users to send Slash commands and messages from the messages tab" enabled
• [Features -> OAuth & Permissions -> Scopes]
  • The following OAuth scopes
    • chat:write
    • files:write
    • im:history
    • im:read
    • im:write
• [Features -> Event Subscriptions]
  • Events enabled
  • Subscribed to bot events
    • message.im

Or use the App Manifest slack_app.yaml.

Make sure you install the Slack app in your workspace after configuring the above.