Still working on this and the accompanying post.

A Django app to create a public API for a private Slack channel's messages.

Check out our Source article explaining how the LA Times uses Slack to create published live chats and how you can make your own.

Create a virtualenv to store the codebase.

$ virtualenv slack_chat

Activate the virtualenv.

$ cd slack_chat
$ . bin/activate

Clone the git repository from GitHub.

$ git clone https://github.com/brizandrew/slack-chat-example.git repo

Enter the repo and install its dependencies.

$ cd repo
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Make a copy of the .env file to add your own credentials

$ cp .env.template .env

Fill in your Slack app's credentials in the copied env file. You also need a random string for the secret_key, and once you have a URL for your app fill that out in site_url.

Make the SQLite file

$ python manage.py migrate

Make a superuser

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

Now run the test server and check out the results on localhost:8000/admin.

$ python manage.py runserver