barning / franvaro

A bot for team-absence in slack

🌴 franvaro 🌴

A bot for managing team-absence in slack

How to Run:

• npm install
• Create .env
• Insert TOKEN=Your Slack Token and NAME=YourBotName in your .env
• Run node index.js

What it does:

This bot creates a list of team-members who are absent. To put yourself on this list, just write something like franvaro: ich bin abwesend (yup it's german). The bot will answer and put you on the list. To remove yourself from the list, just say something like franvaro: ich bin anwesend.

The important keywords are franvaro and abwesend or anwesend. To see the complete list, just type franvaro: status. If something does not work, franvaro will inform you.

franvaro's Issues

Commands for status, present and absent

The current way of interacting with the bot is not good. There should be something like /status username or /absent username.

Set status for others

Team should be able to set the status for others.

Bot has no avatar in the message

Maybe something documeted here
https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage

Time-based absence

Should be something like /absence from Tuesday to Friday or /absence username from Tuesday to Friday

Sensitive reading of the messages

The bot should not only react do desktop_notification but recognize keywords like the bot-name and status messages