Karmabot

A serverless Slack App for giving (and taking) karma.

[ebarbara 9:32 PM] foo++

[karmabot APP 9:32 PM] New karma for foo 6

Installation

Prerequisites

Install Architect

npm i -g @architect/architect

Install and Configure AWS CLI

Installing the AWS CLI version 2

Configuration and credential file settings

Create a Slack App

Create new app

Minimally configure the app to start. And add it to your Slack workspace.

Once installed visit https://api.slack.com/apps//install-on-team and grab the Bot User OAuth Access Token.

Similarly, visit https://api.slack.com/apps//general? and grab the Signing Secret.

Initiate and Deploy the App

arc init
arc env production SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET <SECRET_FROM_SLACK>
arc env production SLACK_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN <TOKEN_FROM_SLACK>
arc deploy production 

Save the API Gateway URL provided at the end of the deploy step.

Grant OAuth Permissions to the App

Grant the following OAuth permissions to your bot:

• users:read
• chat:write
• channels:history
• groups:history (optional if you want to use karmabot in private channels)

Enable event subscriptions.

You will be prompted to verify your app's URL. Use the API Gateway URL from the previous step to do so.

In addition, add the following bot events:

• message:channels
• message:groups

Add the App to Slack

Add the app to your Slack workspace. Invite the bot to whichever channels you want to track karma.

Usage

You can give karma to single word strings, specific people, or quoted phrases:

• @ebarbara++
• tacos++
• "dragons love tacos"++

You can also load all the users so that mentions without a preceding @ attribute karma to the intended person (ebarbara++):

• shibboleth reload will load usernames

You can also decrement karma:

• COVID-19--

Happy trails!