slack-randompicker

Pick a random person from a group or channel in Slack

Usage

To show the help, you can type /pickrandom help in Slack:

Here is the output of an instantaneous random pick, using /pickrandom #general to play music:

And an example of a periodic random pick, using /pickrandom #general to prepare slides every Monday at 10am:

To dispay all the current scheduled random picks, you can do /pickrandom list:

Server installation

After creatinga Slack bot, you can install slack-randompicker using docker on your own server:

$ export DATABASE_URL=...
$ export SLACK_TOKEN=...
$ export SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=...
$ docker run -e DATABASE_URL -e SLACK_TOKEN -e SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET mvdb/slack-randompicker:0.6.0

Slack app setup

Assuming your Slackbot is installed at https://host.com, to setup the bot for your own workspace, you will need the following:

• Interactivity: set the request URL to https://host.com/actions
• Slash commands: create a new slash command named /pickrandom and set the request URL to https://host.com/slashcommand
• Bot Token Scopes: set up the scopes channels:read, chat:write, chat:write.public, commands, groups:read, usergroups:read and users:read.