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Slack-RTM-Bot-1.14
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/ Slack::RTM::Bot

NAME

Slack::RTM::Bot - This is a perl module helping to create slack bot with Real Time Messaging(RTM) API.

SYNOPSIS

use Slack::RTM::Bot;
my $bot = Slack::RTM::Bot->new( token => '<API token>');

$bot->on({
        channel => 'general',
        text    => qr/.*/
    },
    sub {
        my ($response) = @_;
        print $response->{text}."\n";
    }
);

$bot->start_RTM(sub {

    $bot->say(
        channel => 'general',
        text    => '<!here> hello, world.'
    );

    $bot->say(
        channel => '@username',
        text    => 'hello, world.'
    );

    while(1) { sleep 10; print "I'm not dead\n"; }
});

METHODS

new

method new(token => $token)

Constructs a Slack::RTM::Bot object.

The $token is the slack API token.

on

method on(\%event, $callback)

$callback will be executed when it fitted the \%event conditions. The \%event key is equal to a key of json received from slack, and value is estimated as regex.

$callback is handed JSON object of message received from Slack.

start_RTM

method start_RTM($callback)

It start Real Time Messaging API. $callback will be executed when establish connection. start_RTM make child process. Thus, you must call stop_RTM if you want to kill child processes before stop main process.

stop_RTM

method stop_RTM()

It stop Real Time Messaging API.

say

method say(%options)

It sent a message to a Slack. The channel name can be used to designate channel. if you want to send a direct message, let designate the @username as a channel.

SOURCE CODE

This is opensource software.

https://github.com/duck8823/Slack-RTM-Bot

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

with installing The fastest way to get started working with the code is to run the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/duck8823/Slack-RTM-Bot.git
$ cd Slack-RTM-Bot
$ cpanm --installdeps .
$ perl Build.PL
$ ./Build
$ ./Build install
$ ./Build test  # run the tests

without installing or without installing Slack-RTM-Bot, run the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/duck8823/Slack-RTM-Bot.git
$ cd Slack-RTM-Bot
$ cpanm --installdeps .  # install dependencies

and run your script with `-I/path/to/Slack-RTM-Bot/lib` option.

$ perl -I/path/to/Slack-RTM-Bot/lib your_script.pl

SEE ALSO

https://api.slack.com/rtm

LICENSE

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Shunsuke Maeda

See LICENSE file.

AUTHOR

Shunsuke Maeda <duck8823@gmail.com>