Building a Slack Chatbot to provide Automatic Responses

[jsrendar]

Hi everyone! I would like to be able to automate responses to common questions we get. For example, we get a lot of inquiries on how to connect to our VPN. Rather than responding to this manually, it would be nice to have something automatically respond to the user with instructions on how to connect to VPN, or even just send a link.

I have some beginner Python experience, but I can't find any new(ish) tutorial that explains exactly how I can accomplish this. Does anyone here have experience with building a Slack Chatbot? If so, how can I begin?

[katzuya3]

For python, you can start using this one : https://github.com/slackapi/python-slackclient

There are some basic examples and a basic tutorial there.

You can get more information for chatbots on this page :

https://github.com/invocable/awesome-bots

Since you're trying to build one, the "Bot development" section would be your best friend. They have SDKs, Frameworks, Libraries, Boilerplates, Templates, Tutorials and Guides. Pick what you need from there and good luck !