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 added Slack member IDs of people you trust.

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.