Marvin

Slack bots using Elixir.

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed as:

1. Add Marvin to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:marvin, "~> 0.1.0"},
    {:websocket_client, git: "https://github.com/jeremyong/websocket_client"}
  ]
end

You'll need to add websocket_client manually.

1. Ensure marvin is started before your application:

def application do
  [applications: [:marvin]]
end

You'll need to set your bots Slack token in your applications config file.

config :marvin, slack_token: "secret"

Creating Bots

Bots are simple to create and can respond to mentions, direct messages and ambient conversation.

defmodule EchoBot do
  use Marvin.Bot

  # here you can set a specific regex pattern to match against
  match ~r//

  def handle_direct(message, slack) do
    send_message(message.text, message.channel, slack)
  end

  def handle_mention(message, slack) do
    send_message(message.text, message.channel, slack)
  end
end

Next you'll need to tell Marvin to start your bots by adding them to your config file.

config :marvin, bots: [EchoBot]