BanditBot

A Slack bot that listens for high entropy words in messages.

Configuration

BanditBot relies on environment variables for it's configuration. The following environment variables can be used for configuration.

Environment Variable Name	Value Type
SLACK_TOKEN	String

Running BanditBot

To run BanditBot ensure that the SLACK_TOKEN environment variable is set and run make run.

BanditBot will tell you when it's connected in it's logs...

016-10-21 23:53:32,815 INFO:Connecting...
2016-10-21 23:53:32,867 INFO:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): slack.com
2016-10-21 23:53:34,016 INFO:BanditBot is connected...
2016-10-21 23:53:34,120 INFO:BanditBot is online...

Developing BanditBot

To develop BanditBot setup a virtualenv. If you are unfamiliar with how to set one up there is a good walkthrough here. Run the following commands once you're in your virtualenv. This assumes the virtualenv is named banditbot.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Testing BanditBot

To test BanditBot follow the steps in Developing BanditBot and run

make test

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Acknowledgements

• Thanks to lyft/bandit-high-entropy-string for high entropy word patterns.