A Slack bot for allowing users to create announcements that are moderated by Slack admins.

Example request:

To install:

npm install

To run:

npm start

• SLACK_CLIENT_ID: your slack client id
• SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET: your slack client secret
• SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET: Your slack signing secret
• SLACK_APP_URL: the base URL that your application is reachable at
• SLACK_ANNOUNCEMENT_CHANNEL: channel to send announcement requests to.
• SLACK_MODERATION_CHANNEL: channel to send moderation requests to.
• ANNOUNCEBOT_DATABASE: path to where announcebot should store oauth info. (In the format )

1.You can get these from going to: https://api.slack.com/apps
2. Create New App
3. Name your app
4. Set your workspace (if required)
5. Click Create App
6. Click Interactive Components
7. Turn the slider on the right on
8. Enter your request url (https://yourbot/slack/recieve) and click Save Changes
9. Click Slash Commands
10. Click Create New Command
11. Type your command option, in our case its /announce
12. Enter the request url (https://yourbot/slack/recieve)
13. Create A description and usage hint
14. Click OAuth & Permissions
15. Select Add New Redirect URL and enter https://yourbot/oauth
16. Select Add and Save URL
16. Under Scopes Select incoming-webhook, bot,commands, and team:read
17. Save Changes
18. Now Select Install App in workspace
19. Under Bot Users, create a name and username
20. On the General page, copy and paste the Client ID, Client Secret, and signing secret.

1. Login to slack on your web-browser
2. After /messages on the URL there's a alphanumeric value, this is your channel id's.

Once started, navigate to https://yourbot/login to set it up in your workspace.