Channel Slack

Set up your Slack account

• Go to https://YOUR_ORGANISATION.slack.com/services/new/bot (replace it with the name of your team)
• Create a new bot and follow the procedure
• That's it, you can now get the code located in the API Token field!

Start your bot in local

Ngrok

• Download on your computer the appropriate version of Ngrok
• Open a new tab in your terminal:

./ngrok http 8080

• Copy past the https://*******ngrok.io you get, you will need it for the next step
• Leave your Ngrok serveur running

Start Connector in local

• Clone and install Connector

$ git clone https://github.com/RecastAI/bot-connector.git
$ cd bot-connector
$ yarn install
$ yarn start-dev

• Create your connector

$ curl -X POST "http://localhost:8080/connectors/" --data "url=connector_url"

• Create your channel

$ curl -X  POST \
  --data "slug=YOUR_CHANNEL_SLUG" --data "isActivated=true" --data "type=kik" \
  --data "apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY" --data "webhook=YOUR_NGROK_URL" --data "userName=YOUR_BOT_NAME" \
  "http://localhost:8080/connectors/:connector_id/channels"

Your bot

A small example of bot:

 import express from 'express'
 import bodyParser from 'body-parser'
 import request from 'superagent'
 
 const app = express()
 app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 5000)
 app.use(bodyParser.json())
 
 const config = { url: 'http://localhost:8080', connectorId: 'yourConnectorId' }
 
   /* Get the request from the connector */
 
 app.post('/', (req, res) => {
   const conversationId = req.body.message.conversation
   const messages = [{
     type: 'text',
     content: 'my first message',
   }]
 
   /* Send the message back to the connector */
   request.post(`${config.url}/connectors/${config.connectorId}/conversations/${conversationId}/messages`)
     .send({ messages, senderId: req.body.senderId })
     .end((err, res) => {
       if (err) {
         console.log(err)
       } else {
         console.log(res)
       }
     })
 })
 
 app.listen(app.get('port'), () => {
   console.log('Our bot is running on port', app.get('port'))
 })