The GPIES Data Cruncher Slack Bot

This is an automated bot to allow the GPIES Data Cruncher chat on Slack.

Requirements

• SlackClient python library
• Slacker python library
• astropy, numpy
• pyephem
• watchdog
• websocket-client

Setup

You need to make a config.ini file that populates the same fields as config.ini.deafult. The token can be obtained from Slack. The username requires parsing a chat message received with the Slack API that has @data_cruncher in the message. In the message, @data_cruncher will be replaced with @(some characters) and (some characters) is actually the chat ID for that username.

Running it

Currently, the bot is set up to run with both the real-time ChatResponder and the NewImagerPoster (which runs when a new PSF subtraction is complete) by just executing the following command.

$ python bot.py