How to build a simple Slack bot using the Bolt framework for Python

[@anthonydegarimore2922]

Really great tutorial. I'm having fun with slack-bolt. Is there a way to have a timed event, like something that happens every Sunday?

[@pybob]

Thanks Anthony, happy to hear. Here is an example of a scheduled event: gist.github.com/bbelderbos/af5555cfb1ff05544b4d0464577b5417 - for recurring items you can run such a script in a cronjob. Maybe there's an easier way (I abstracted this from one of our bot projects) but I would look at "client.chat_scheduleMessage"
HTH
Bob

[@mohitgupta7819]

What if I want the slack bot to reply to a particular channel

[@Pybites]

That must be possible. How do you mean reply to a particular channel, when user pings it or in response to some sort of pattern?

[@maharjanlaxman]

How create a web socket connection between slack and another web server ??
Have you any idea about it??

[@Pybites]

No idea, does Google yield anything?

[@arukshasilvie]

Is im:history required for adding slash commands ?

[@Pybites]

I am not sure, I guess it depends the type of command? Have you tried?

[@GuilhermeSilva-dh1ru]

Nice Video. Keep up the good work

[@Pybites]

Thanks Guilherme!

[@ask-odia]

Thank you. Easy to learn. I have created a bot and want to deploy in multiple servers. How can we make sure that we will get reply from only one server?

[@Pybites]

Cool, thanks. Make different Slack app instances, one for each different environment maybe?

[@jonathanhle]

Really helpful. Thank you.

[@Pybites]

Thank you. I should build another bot, they are fun and really helpful for work / teams. What are you building?

[@jonathanhle]

@@Pybites I'm going to try to write a Slackbot/Slack App for an OSS project from Discord called Access.
First time trying to write a Slack App/Bot, so it's all fun stuff to me.
Thanks again for the video!

[@Pybites]

@@jonathanhle awesome, feel free to share it in our community when you finished your prototype: pybites.circle.so/home

[@prashantkowshik5637]

Thanks a lot.

[@Pybites]

Yw, are you building a Slack bot?

[@diwakardayal954]

thanks & those jokes man 😂

[@cjbarroso]

Thanks!

[@danielscholz7826]

Really poor tutorial jumping right in to environment navigation without showing that set up.

[@Pybites]

Thanks for your feedback, you mean the slack app interface at the start? What set up did we miss or could we have expanded upon then?

[@sylex5046]

Have you tried slack_bolt.asyncapp

[@Pybites]

Not yet, you?

[@sylex5046]

@@Pybites I have not, and I have trying to use it but I cant seem to make it run. If you could do a quick tutorial ill highly appreciate it

[@Pybites]

@@sylex5046 I don't have a need now / other prios. Btw why do you need async, does sync work for you?