stackexchange-monitor

A Slack app that monitors StackExchange and publishes new questions by tag to designated Slack channels.

Inspired by this.

Installation

Setup for Heroku

Create new Slack app

Go here and click on Create New App. Choose the From scratch option and name your bot whatever you'd like. Choose your workspace, then click Create App.

Configure your Slack app

1. Click on OAuth & Permissions on the left sidebar. Scroll down to Scopes and add chat:write and links:write to Bot Token Scopes.

2. Scroll up and click on Install to Workspace under OAuth Tokens for Your Workspace.

3. Click on Socket Mode Under Settings on the left sidebar. Click the toggle switch to enable Socket Mode.

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/fluffypill0w/stackexchange-monitor.git

Deploy to Heroku

Make sure you are in the cloned folder and deploy the app to Heroku:

cd stackexchange-monitor && heroku create && git push heroku main

Configure your Heroku app

You'll need to set all of the variables listed in .env.sample as config variables in Heroku:

heroku config:set SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=XXX SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=XXX SLACK_APP_TOKEN=XXX SLACK_CHANNEL_ID=XXX PORT=XXX STACKEXCHANGE_TAG=XXX STACKEXCHANGE=XXX

Contributing

Install dependencies

npm install

Compile

npm run build

Build and start the app

npm run start