A fun little slack app to resurrect past people using "AI"

Originally written by Callum Stsyan and Dan Ellis - https://github.com/saucelabs/slacktalker

Configuration is done by environment variables

• SLACK_BOT_TOKEN - Bot User OAuth Access Token
• DATABASE_URL - SQLAlchemy database uris - https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/core/engines.html#database-urls
  • Mysql example: mysql://root@localhost/slackresurrect?charset=utf8
  • Postgres example: postgresql://postgres:@localhost/slackresurrect
• SENTRY_TOKEN - optional - Token to talk to sentry.io

1. Create a slack app - https://api.slack.com/apps
2. Navigate to the "OAuth & Permissions" sub screen
3. Grab the "Bot User OAuth Access Token" and populate the "SLACK_BOT_TOKEN" configuration variable
4. Make sure bots scope is added to permission scopes
5. Create a database
6. Populate the "DATABASE_URL" variable

1. Export data from slack - See https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Exporting-your-team-s-Slack-history
2. Copy zip to where code is
3. Run python import.py $zipfile
4. Celebrate the success