Slack Translation Bot

stable release of Slack Translator Bot.

http://github.com/rickt/slack-translator-bot

what is Slack Translator Bot? the [as-is demo] code gets you get a couple of Slack /slash commands that let you translate from English to Japanese, and vice-versa.

below screenshot shows example response to a Slack user wanting to translate “the rain in spain falls mainly on the plane” by typing:

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within slack:

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TL;DR/HOW-TO

  • you get a google translate api key
  • you deploy a go backend app to Google Appengine that responds to
  • a couple of custom Slack /slash commands that you create in Slack
  • you profit

http://gist-it.appspot.com/https://github.com/rickt/slack-translator-bot/blob/master/slacktranslatorbot.go

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