Set Channel Topic in Slack

[coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee]

Set Channel Topic in Slack

[jamescmartinez]

Very true. I can expose the events API instead of the iCal for anyone who wants it. Just let me know.

[rodericj]

I think this is a small enough project that you could do the slack integration without even affecting the current direction that James has in mind. As in there isn’t a huge amount of legacy infra. I’m not sure if this is a time to bring up micro services(?) but I say go for it.

[jamescmartinez]

This would be a biggie. You'd have to handle:

1. Slack authentication/authorization
2. Channel selection and association with a group
3. Updating that channel's topic -- the easiest of the three

If you're up for it, though, please do!

[brennanMKE]

I once created a tiny Slack bot in TypeScript. I was able to use my personal access token to post messages.

https://gist.github.com/brennanMKE/1f7bee9a2863c7a2433e

Something like it could be used to schedule a message to be posted to the appropriate channel. Another API call may change the channel topic just as easily.

[jamescmartinez]

The difficult part that I alluded to above would be creating and storing non-personal access tokens. e.g. if Brennan owned iOS Coffee, it would be Brennan's access token, and if Phil owned iOS Beer, it would be Phil's access token.

[rodericj]

I think you can do this task separate from the repo. A chron that reads the event api and does the thing works

[jamescmartinez]

I'm going to close this. If someone is interested in doing this, ping me and I'll surface an API.