WorldCup Bot

Meet WorldCup Bot, a dirty simple bot for posting 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ matches events to Slack.

WorldCup Bot will post:

• Today's matches
• Matches about to start
• Goals
• Yellow and red cards

Getting started

Configure your AWS keys, this article shows various ways of configuring the keys. A quick simple one is just to export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY. Personally, I prefer aws-vault for managing my keys.

Get a Slack Token.

Create an .env file as follows:

SLACK_TOKEN=YOUR-SLACK-TOKEN
SLACK_CHANNEL=#worldcup
SLACK_BOT_NAME=WorldCup Bot

Install dependencies:

# See https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/
yarn install

Deploy:

yarn deploy

That's it, the WorldCup Bot will check and notify matches events every 1 minute. For changing the frequency or disabling the auto notification, check the CloudWatch Event configuration.

Invoking from command-line

For invoking the deployed version:

yarn sls invoke -f matches

For invoking the local version:

yarn sls invoke local -f matches

AWS Resources

WorldCup Bot runs on AWS and it uses:

• CloudFormation provisioned with Serverless
• Lambda for processing matches data from WORLD CUP 2018 and posting to Slack
• CloudWatch Events for triggering the Lambda every 1 minute
• DynamoDB for keeping track of the sent messages to avoid duplicates

Uninstall

Once you are done with your bot, you can just remove the CloudFormation stack yarn sls remove.