reactor

README

Reactor

A Slack bot that guesses crowd reactions to your messages.

Usage

In Slack, @reactor responds to direct messages with a guess at what the most popular reaction to it will be. It guesses based on recent interactions in public channels.

A few special commands:

• Typing help responds with some simple information about the bot.
• Typing update rebuilds the classifier based on the latest messages.

Getting Started

To run this bot locally, retrieve the repository with:

go get github.com/kujenga/reactor

Optionally, if you have glide on your system you can install the pinned dependencies with glide install.

For information on how to get setup a Slack bot, check out the instructions for the Boston Golang Slack lab.

Once you have an API key, setup your shell with the following command, substituting in your token:

export SLACK_TOKEN="<my_slack_token>"

Then, you can run the bot with:

go run main.go

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Special thanks to @doykle for the idea, and the jbrukh/bayesian library for making it easy to setup a bayesian classifier.