Tech Talk
Building Your First Slackbot With Python
Video
About the Talk
Use Slack? Want to make a Slackbot to automate all the things? Slack’s amazing Python libraries can help get your bot up and running. See what a Slackbot is, how to configure it in the Slack developer portal, build our first Python Slackbot, and deploy it to production.
What You’ll Learn
- How to create a Slackbot in the Slack API Dashboard
- How to implement a Slackbot in Python
- Deploy your Slackbot to DigitalOcean App Platform
This Talk Is Designed For
Any developer who wants to build a Slackbot
Prerequisites
Basic Python knowledge and a Slack workspace they can install apps into
Resources
Step-by-step tutorial: How To Build a Slackbot in Python on Ubuntu 20.04
Slack APIs allow you to integrate complex services with Slack beyond out-of-the-box integrations.
DigitalOcean App Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that allows developers to publish code directly to DigitalOcean servers without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. [Docs]
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author
Developer Advocate
Mason is currently a Sr. Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean who specializes in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and Python.
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