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.

Configure your Slack app

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.