Minimalistic code to create a serverless slash handler for a Slack bot. Further information on this repository can be found in the article Google Cloud Platform - Serverless Slack Bot
This cloud function can be deployed to the current google project:
gcloud functions deploy hello_bot --runtime python37 --trigger-http
The function permissions will need to be updated to grant allUsers the Cloud Functions Invoker role. This makes the function publicly available to be invoked from Slack.
Configuration information used at runtime. Update the SLACK_TOKEN and WEBHOOK_URL here for your environment/project.
python implementation of a slash handler Slack bot. Config is read when the function is loaded by the line
config = json.loads(open('config.json', 'r').read())The entry point is:
def hello_bot(request):Execution then consists of:
- validate the slack token is correct
- validate the request
- execute the request or return an error message