Health Buddy is a Slack App that helps you maintain mental and physical health throughout the day by sending periodic reminders and uplifting messages.
- Slack API documentation https://api.slack.com/
- How to write a slack bot with python code https://medium.com/@julianmartinez/how-to-write-a-slack-bot-with-python-code-examples-4ed354407b98
- Slack developer kit https://slackapi.github.io/python-slackclient/
- First things first, you need to create a folder to hold all of these files and set up a virtualenv. You can do this by opening your terminal and navigating into the project folder. Then just install the virtualenv with this code:
--python=/Users/username/Software/Python-3.6.0/mybuild/bin/python3 env. To activate, use:source env/bin/activate. - Next, you must install Slack Developer Kit for Python. Do that by typing
pip install slackclientin the command line. - Then you must open slack in your browser, and retrieve the slack channel ID, located in the URL. Paste that into "channel."
- After that, generate your own slack token. To read about different slack tokens, visit https://api.slack.com/docs/token-types. You need the Oauth Bot User Token.
- Invite health-buddy to the slack channel!
- If you want, you can add more messages into JSON file.
- Finally, deploy to Heroku. Here's is a helpful video we used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwWPunpypNA. We also used Heroku Scheduler to have Health Buddy run every four hours.
- You're good to go!