ability to chat to irc from slack

[morenoh149]

Is there any interest in adding the ability to use a slack outgoing webhook to communicate with this script. Then have this script speak to the irc channel. We would prefix the string with the initiating slack user's slack username.

[morenoh149]

I could sleep knowing I could implement this. Please review this fork morenoh149/slack-irc-plugin@jimmyhillis:master...master
thoughts

• using dot-env npm module may be more convenient for specifying api tokens
  morenoh149/slack-irc-plugin@jimmyhillis:master...master#diff-a084b794bc0759e7a6b77810e01874f2R18
• lets make the bot less chatty or offer a relay mode to distinguish repeated messages vs the bot complaining
  morenoh149/slack-irc-plugin@jimmyhillis:master...master#diff-7202bb7fb017faefd425a2af32df2f9dL62
• let's make relay mode optional
• I added support to 'speak' to the channels in the config vs the hardcoded '#irc' channel that was there before
  morenoh149/slack-irc-plugin@jimmyhillis:master...master#diff-7202bb7fb017faefd425a2af32df2f9dL127
• error handling needs work. I'm not sure what are good error's to display morenoh149/slack-irc-plugin@jimmyhillis:master...master#diff-cf003443bd694c9261f0dc67d7a7810fL26

this fork is consistent with the current slack incoming/outgoing webhook api. I'm currently running a slack channel where I can post to my private server and the server relays the message to irc and vice versa.

[morenoh149]

just to confirm this is what slack instructed after creating the incoming webhook.
I believe the current script does not follow these instructions because I couldn't get it to work. I may be wrong though

[jimmyhillis]

This is a great idea. It's been in my plans for a long time (I have a branch started with it, but haven't finished it) so thank you for the effort. If you want to do a Pull Request I can give your code a review and we'll see what we can merge in? I might have a look at my outstanding branch as well and see if we can't come up with something between the two of them.

[dylangrafmyre]

Slack has changed the Incoming Webhook syntax. I had to edit slacker.js to reflect not needing a orgname and just using the token evironment variable which is now just a web hook url without the orgname and assigned token.

dylangrafmyre@5d5bedc

[dwasyluk]

This is awesome and exactly what I was looking for- thanks for the addition! Please issue a PR ;)

[slash-zero]

Is this feature fully implemented and functional? If so, this is great! Thanks for doing it.

[morenoh149]

@slash-zero no. If you fix up the code make sure to push upstream

[Jaykul]

I've got it working using the slack bot hook (so there's only one "integration"). I can send you a PR

This would be pretty cool..