rocket_squirrel_slack_bot

This posts new RSS feed updates to Slack channels.

https://rocketsquirrel.org/@thewongguy/python/create-a-slack-bot-for-rss-feeds

https://rocketsquirrel.org/@thewongguy/api/hosting-your-service-on-aws-lambda

Requirements

• AWS S3 tokens

• Slack API token

• Python 3.6.1

• boto3

• feedparser

• requests

• slackclient

Usage

Update the config.ini or export environment variables like so.

export access_key_id = "youraccesskeyid"
export secret_access_key = "yoursecretaccesskey"
export region = "us-west-2"
export bucket_name = "rocketsquirrel"
export bucket_file = "feed.json"
export slack_token = "yourslacktoken"
export slack_channels = "#dotorg #_general"
export slack_blurb = "A Squirrel by the name of {author} has published a new blog entry. Check it out here! {url}"
export url = "https://rocketsquirrel.org/feed"

If config.ini is present, it will take values from there.

Run in a cron or host on AWS Lambda.

If using AWS Lambda, upload the zip and set the environment variables.