Convbot

Convbot integrates WolframAlpha into Slack.

Features

• Automatically converts units enclosed in `
  • Try My car is `3 meters` long
• Queries WolframAlpha with `=<query>` *This will only show the primary pod of the WolframAlpha result, to not spam the channel.
  • Try `=image of obama`
• Shows all the pods WolframAlpha gives us when you use `=+<query>`
  • Try `=+solve (x*8 + 3) = 0`
• Slash-Command /convert
  • /convert <unit expression> converts metric to imperial or vice versa in the same style the ` unit expression would
    • Try /convert 3 meters
  • /convert <unit expression> to <other unit> does what you'd expect, also in the same style
    • Try /convert 50 K to Fahrenheit
• Config has a list of units that we assign to either metric or imperial

Setup

1. Download the sources

2. copy config.example.js to config.js

3. Fill all necessary API Tokens in config.js. You need:

   1. Slack Bot API token
   2. Slack slash-command token
   3. Wolfram API token
   4. cloudinary API key, secret and app name

4. Set the port you want the internal webserver to listen on for incoming slash commands.

   To set the URL for slash command in Slack

   If your domain is example.com, and your port is 3000, the URL will be http://example.com:3000/slackslash

5. Install necessary dependencies using npm install

6. Run the application using npm start

License

This project is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3.0