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Building Slack Bots

You're reading from Building Slack Bots Create powerful, useful, fast, and fun chat bots that make Slack better

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460806

Length 182 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

Chatbots

Author (1):

Paul Asjes

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Building Slack Bots

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Getting Started with Slack FREE CHAPTER

2. Your First Bot

3. Adding Complexity

4. Using Data

5. Understanding and Responding to Natural Language

6. Webhooks and Slash Commands

7. Publishing Your App

Index

The end goal

Upon completing this book, the reader will be able to build a complex Slack bot that can perform the following tasks, amongst other things:

Receive and send message sent in Slack
Respond to user commands
Process natural language
Perform useful tasks on command (for example, fetch data from external sources)
Insert custom data into Slack via webhooks and slash commands

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Building Slack Bots

Published in: Jun 2016

Publisher: Packt

ISBN-13: 9781786460806

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Authors (1)

Paul Asjes

Paul Asjes

Paul Asjes started programming on his TI-83 calculator in high school and has been hooked ever since. Specializing in JavaScript, he is always interested in staying up to date with the latest developments in the field. Currently, he is building universal full-stack apps with technologies such as React, Webpack, and Node when he's not spending far too much time on Slack. Since his IRC days, he has been interested in chat bots and how they can be used. He has written several Slack bots to date, ranging from bots that facilitate playing games to bots that retrieve important business metrics.

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