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rickt/slack-appengine

stable release of my modified-for Google Appengine fork of https://github.com/bluele/slack. i have this working in production on several Appengine-hosted /slash commands & bots.

http://github.com/rickt/slack-appengine

the TL;DR on my modifications:

HTTP requests are restricted/controlled in App Engine, you must use a helper function. i made the necessary modifications. see https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/go/urlfetch/ for more details.
Buele’s lib did not support Slack usergroups. i added it.

https://github.com/rickt/slack-appengine

rickt/slack-appengine

Slack Timebot

stable release of Slack Timebot.

https://github.com/rickt/timebot-simple

what is Slack Timebot? at work, i very often have to know what time it is in the following regions:

so i wrote a mini go backend app that i threw into a free Google Appengine app and so now i can get the time instantly by using any of these new Slack /slash commands:

/time (PST)
/utctime (UTC)
/japantime (JST)

TL;DR/HOW-TO

you deploy a go backend app to Google Appengine that responds to
a couple of custom Slack /slash commands that you create in Slack

http://gist-it.appspot.com/http://github.com/rickt/timebot-simple/blob/master/timebot-simple.go