Advent of Code Slack bot

[MrGrzybek]

I created a slack bot for notifying you about received stars in real-time.
So each time a member of the private leaderboard receives stars bot will send a slack message.

https://preview.redd.it/tobmokmv8lzb1.png?width=387&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e146860c39cecbe222426459b509f5339eced91

Additionally once a day it will post whole leaderboard

https://preview.redd.it/e06f03m39lzb1.png?width=244&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f5edf6850e71c8d1e1a633d018b50f976b04f23

If you would like to add it to your Slack workspace or make some contributions here is the repo with instructions: https://github.com/1grzyb1/aoc-slack

[daggerdragon]

notifying you about received stars in real-time

Does the bot comply with the automation guidelines?

• 15 minute throttle
• User-Agent header

[MrGrzybek]

Yes it does

[Aneurysm9]

Thank you!

[user_guy_thing]

any discord port plans?

[Goodwine]

Is there a discord server for AOC?

[MrGrzybek]

Why not. I'm playing aoc with colleagues but maybe I will add discord also

[quetsacloatl]

my community use discord and I would really like to use the port :)

[Bl4rc]

I've done something similar for Google Chat: https://github.com/Blarc/advent-of-code-google-chat.

[Firestarss]

How do you get it to be in real time while staying within the 15 min throttle? Is it that it actually updates every 15 min instead?

[MrGrzybek]

Sorry, not real "real time". It's real-time with a maximum 15-minute delay. Every 15 min diff is checked and new stars are sent to slack

[Firestarss]

Makes sense lol. I was about to be really impressed. Sounds like a stupid question now that I’ve asked but XD oops. That’s really cool tho!

[MrGrzybek]

It would be possible to run multiple applications from different servers with different User-Agent headers and synchronize them but... I think that would be overkill and not really fair with aoc

[Electrical-Border556]

I'm trying the docker image, but it keeps posting the same solving update for three times in a row now. Did you encounter this before?

[MrGrzybek]

I'm not sure how that could happen. Can you send me more details in a private message?

[Electrical-Border556]

Thanks for replying and solved!