We will walk through the steps to set up your project, create and install a Slackbot, write the code, and test it out! Set Up Your Project Once you have the materials above, you can get started with building your simple Slackbot. If you do not have python installed on your computer, you can download it here. If you don’t already have one, you can create one here. We will write the code for the bot in Python and utilize the Slack API.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Slackbot that can function from behind a corporate firewall to run internally. Instead, check out a tutorial on how to build your first Slackbot with Python. If your workspace is unprotected, then you might not need to create a bot in Socket Mode. This makes building a Slackbot a bit more complicated. You can really leverage all that the Slack API has to offer.For security purposes, large organizations that utilize Slack often operate from behind a corporate firewall. slack-machine also has built-in scheduling to trigger plugin functions on a cron-like schedule (Errbot has something similar with pollers, but it's not as flexible as a cron schedule)įor me it was a clear design choice to focus only on Slack, so the bots you build with it feel as "integrated" as possible with Slack. Examples could be: someone joins a channel, a reaction is added to a message, a message is pinned.
slack-machine lets you listen to any type of event Slack emits. Errbot seems to be focused only on commands that are triggered by sending certain chat messages. slack-machine can for example add "reactions" to messages, which Errbot cannot. slack-machine can work that way as well (with command prefixes like ! or %), but it also responds to actual mentions There are more differences like that, where Errbot tries to be agnostic of the chat service it's running against, but that also means it has to cater to the lowest common denominator in terms of integration with a chat service. For example, you cannot say deploy webapp to production", but you have to say "!mybot deploy webapp to production". Errbot being chat service agnostic, also makes it feel a bit "non-native" for Slack. It's not a naive question at all! The 2 biggest differences I can see:
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