Heybot

Heybot is a Slackbot for interacting with BambooHR

⚠️ This is not a version to be used in production or for commercial purpose

What can Heybot help you with?

• Knowing your Time Off (used, unused...)
• Registering Time Off and update status of your request (Approved/ Not approved)

Documentation

Medium Post

Built with

• Flask
• ngrok
• Slack API
• BambooHR API
• pip - manually install if you use < Python 2. Otherwise, pip is already installed

Feedback and Support

I would love to know your feedback. Drop me a line at my email or my Twitter

Project status

Released v1.0: Hello_world version. Slackbot replies "Hello " back when a user DM bot with "Hello" (NO CASE SENSITIVITY)

Todo

• Build functions to analyze user's requests via conversation with heybot
• Connect heybot to BambooHR
• Send request to BambooHR API and get answer for heybot

Acknowledgement

Foundation

• APIS for Beginners
• Building Cloud Services with the Java Spring Framework - should only watch Week 1

To build Slackbot

• python-slackclient
• python-slack-events-api
• References: Building slack-bot, python3, how to detect and respond only to direct messages?
• References: How to make a Chatbot with Python (for Slack)

License

MIT