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Building Slack Bots

Create powerful, useful, fast, and fun chat bots that make Slack better

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jan 2025
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Description

Create powerful, useful, fast, and fun chat bots that make Slack better

Key Features

  • This is the first developer's guide to programming for Slack
  • It covers everything you need to create chat bots for Slack’s conversational UI
  • It’s full of realistic examples, usable code, and lucid explanations on everything you need to know

Book Description

Slack promises that its users will "be less busy." Slack bots interact with users in Slack chatrooms, providing useful immediate information, and automating work. This book gives you everything you need to build powerful and useful Slack bots.

You’ll see how to hook into the Slack API to create software that can read and post to chatrooms, respond to commands and hints given in natural conversational language, and build fun and useful bots for your own place of work, both as a front end to your own service and to distribute and share as apps. You can even sell your bots and build a business as a Slack bot developer.

Throughout the book, you’ll build useful and fun example applications that you can modify for your own situations. These range from simple, fun applications to liven up discussions to useful, data-driven apps to help you make decisions quickly and manage work.

What you will learn

  • Receive and send messages sent in Slack
  • Respond to user commands
  • Process natural language
  • Perform useful tasks on commands such as fetching data from external sources
  • Use webhooks and slash commands

Who this book is for

This is a book for software developers who want to build Slack bots for their own company’s use or for customers. You need to know JavaScript.

Table of Contents

  1. Getting started
  2. Building your first Bot
  3. Enhancing the Bot
  4. Using Data
  5. Understanding and Responding to Natural Language
  6. Webhooks and Slash Commands
  7. Publishing Your App
https://github.com/packtpublishing/building-slack-bots
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78646-093-6
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 182
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Programming and languages
BISAC subjects:
COM051260,
COM084000,
COM051000
Thema subjects:
UMW,
UB,
UM

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