translation-slackbot

README

Databank Korean to English (and back again!) bot

A small slack bot which translates Korean slack messages into English, and English messages into Korean, which it does via papago

It can be invited into slack channels, where it will:

1. Listen out for new messages
2. Translate messages from one language to the other (based on character encodings, and sentence structure)
3. Respond to messages again in a thread

This bot requires the following env vars:

Env var	Description
$SLACK_BOT_TOKEN	The bot token used to authenticate against slack. See: https://api.slack.com/authentication/token-types#bot
$SLACK_APP_TOKEN	The app token used to perform app level tasks. See: https://api.slack.com/authentication/token-types#app
$NAVER_CLIENT_ID	See: https://developers.naver.com/docs/papago/README.md
$NAVER_CLIENT_SECRET	See: https://developers.naver.com/docs/papago/README.md

Installation

Included in this project is a manifest.yml file which can be used to configure slack.

Building

This bot can be built using pretty standard go tools:

$ go build

Or via docker:

$ docker build -t translation-slackbot .

Running

If you've built the app yourself, using go, then you may run:

SLACK_BOT_TOKEN="see above" SLACK_APP_TOKEN="see above" NAVER_CLIENT_ID="see above" ./translation-slackbot

Otherwise I suggest building via docker (see above) and running with:

$ docker run --name translation-slackbot -e SLACK_BOT_TOKEN="see above" -e SLACK_APP_TOKEN="see above" -e NAVER_CLIENT_ID="see above" translation-slackbot

(Setting the above environment variables according to the values in the environment variables table in the document)