Jokes Slackbot App

Features

• Sit back & relax - you will get 2 jokes daily in the morning as well as night.
• Get Slack Notification
• Depending upon time of day the image will be changing and send to slack with the jokes.
• Jokes are coming from 2 API's that are famous for giving random jokes.
• The Jokes from the APi's are stored in database also. (DB used - MongoDB)
• Its ROBUST!
  • What if script fails?
  • You get Slack notifications about the exceptions too.
  • You have log files (check bot.log) too, to evaluate what went wrong

Installation

• You need Python.
• You need MongoDB installed. -Follw steps from the link provided to install MomgoDB. (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/)
• You need a Slack account + Slack Webhook to send slack notifications to your account.
• Install dependencies by running

pip install pymongo
pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4

• Clone this repo and create auth.py

git clone https://github.com/Kaustav96/Joke-Bot-App.git
cd Joke-Bot-App
touch auth.py

• Write your Slack Webhook into auth.py

DEFAULT_SLACK_WEBHOOK = 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/<your custome webhook url>'