🤔 What is it?

This is a basic Slack Bot that:

1. Fetches top Hacker News stories
2. Filters them based on keywords
3. Sends a slack message to a list of users, notifying them of any matches.

Set-up and deployment takes only 5 minutes! With Scheduled Deployments, you can execute the script as often as you'd like.

⚡ Quick Configuration (Recommended)

Want to get started as fast as possible?

1. Head to this page and click Create New App
2. Select From an app manifest
3. Copy + paste the manifest file
4. Select "Install to Workspace"
5. Add in your Slack secrets (found below) to the secrets pane in Repit
6. Add your Slack UID (Profile -> three dot menu -> Copy member ID) and keywords to the app.
7. Run your Repl (select Run at the top of this page) + see what happens!

🔑 Secrets

Secret	Description
SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET	Your app's "signing secret" can be found on the main app page under Basic Information -> App Credentials -> Signing Secret.
SLACK_APP_TOKEN	The app-level token you configured when setting up Socket mode or under Basic Information -> App-Level Tokens -> Token Name.
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN	Your app's bot token is in the Installed App Settings tab -> Bot User OAuth Token.

Add these to your Repl in the Secrets pane (⌘ + K and type "secrets").

🎽 Deploying Your App

Once you have your application configured and tokens set, you can hit Run (⌘ + Enter) in Replit to execute app.py.

To have your bot execute on a schedule, head over to "Deployments" (⌘ + K, "deployments") to create a "Scheduled" deployment. This deployment uses cron syntax to execute the job on a regular cadence.