Add a Slack Bot!

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Intro

First of all, clone the python_rtmbot git repo.

Then, head to slack.com for your personal account, click build from the apps page and add a custom bot.

Grab the API token and copy it into a rtmbot.conf file at the root of your directory.

Creating plugins

In the plugins folder, create a folder with the name of the plugin and then within the plugin.py itself. Inside, you want to ensure you have a outputs = [] and crontable = [] list ready to go.

From here, you can define processes as so: def process_namehere(data):.

The data argument is the data recieved by the bot.

Banana Plugin

In the plugins directory, create banana.py

import random

from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenizem wordpunct_tokenize
from noun_hound import NounHound

crontable = []
outputs = []

nh = NounHound()

def process_message(data):
        messaage = data['text']
        sentences = sent_tokenize(message)
        sentences_num = random.randint(0, len(sentences) - 1)
        setence = sentences[stence_num]
        words = wordpunct_tokenize(sentence)
        nouns = nh.process(sentence)
        replacement = random.choice(nouns['nouns'])
        words[words.index(replacement) = 'banana']
        sentences[sentence_num] = ' '.join(words)
        outputs.append([data["channel"], ' '.join(sentences)])
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