stack_slack_bot

A simple Python bot that asks StackExchange (you specify which sites in the network) for questions about particular subjects, and then tells a Slack channel when it's found some. Useful for any projects who expect to have a tech support burden on StackExchange.

Configuration, setup, and running instructions

1. Get a StackExchange API key. You can get one here
2. Create a Slack app. You can do so here
3. Ensure that your Python installation has met the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt
4. In your Slack app, click "Add features and functionality" and "Incoming webhooks". Create a webhook for the channel of your choice.
5. Copy config-blank.json to config.json and fill it in:

• Put your StackExchange API key in "stack_key"
• Put your Slack webhook URL in "slack_hook"
• Put the StackExchange network sites you wish to search in the "sites" field (e.g. ["stackoverflow", "stats"])
• Put the searches you wish to report in the "searches" field.

6. Run stack_slack_bot.py

Linting settings:

pep8 --ignore W191,E101,E111,E501,E128

autopep8 --ignore W191,E101,E111,E128,E501 --in-place

pylint (pylint settings contained in .pylintrc)