This little server attempts to be a two-way bridge between Slack and IRC. The idea is that you can do
/ircsetup ssl=true server=myircserver.com:6697 password=myserverpassword channel=#myircchannel
in a Slack channel, and it will set up the connection.
Please feel free to send me comments and suggestions, either here or in the public trello board.
For this service to work, we depend on various Slack integrations.
Go to Slack API after you log in to your Slack account, and generate a bearer token for your team (if you haven't done so already).
Go to Slack Integrations for your team and add Slash Commands and Outgoing WebHooks.
For the Slash Commands integration, set the Command to /ircsetup, URL to
https://<yourserver.com>/ircsetup, and Method to POST.
For Outgoing WebHooks - this is a little annoying - but Slack only supports having one per
channel (otherwise you would have to use specific keywords to trigger it). This means that you
will have to add one for each Slack channel you want to link with an IRC channel. Anyway...
after you add it, in the Integration Settings section, set Channel to your desired Slack
channel, let Trigger words be empty, and set URL to https://<yourserver.com>/toirc.
So if you have multiple Slack channels, just repeat the procedure for each of them...
There is a default config file in config/default.yml. It is lightly commented - copy it to
config/local.yml and put overrides in that file (so you easily avoid checking it in to git).
Do npm install to get your dependencies.
Run it with node server.js
Type an /ircsetup command and pray you get a Setup successful message back ;)