yandex-serverless-slack-bot

Simple Slack bot example using Yandex Cloud

Steps

1. First you need to Create your App:

   • Click Create New App
   • In the Name field, enter the app name, in our case: MY_SLACK_BOT
   • Select the workspace and click Create app
   • Grant permissions to the MY_SLACK_BOT app:
     • go to Features -> OAuth@Permissions -> Scopes -> Bot Token Scopes:
     • add: chat:write commands im:history
     • go to Features -> OAuth@Permissions:
       • click Install to Workspace
       • click Allow
       • at the top you will see pop-up Success!
       • below you can see Bot User OAuth Token. Copy to your notes
     • go to Settings -> Basic Information:
       • copy Signing Secret to your notes

2. Go to Yandex Cloud Console

3. Create Yandex Service account in Yandex Cloud:

   • click Create service account
   • add name, in our case for-slack-bot
   • add role editor
   • click Create
   • copy Service Account ID to your notes

4. Create Yandex API-Gateway in Yandex Cloud:

   • add name, in our case api-python-slack-bot
   • click Create
   • after publication in spec you can see servers section:
   • Copy Server Url to your notes https://d5dtglrhssdfgvms1i.apigw.yandexcloud.net (url example from spec)

5. Create Yandex Cloud Function in Yandex Cloud:

   • add name, in our case function-for-api-python-slack-bot
   • click Create
   • choose programming language, in our case it will be Python:
   • create index.py file (If is not created as template):
     • add temp code in index.py file👇:

     import json
     def handler(event, context):
         print(f"Received event:\n{event}\nWith context:\n{context}")
     
         slack_body = event.get("body")
         slack_event = json.loads(slack_body)
         challenge_answer = slack_event.get("challenge")
     
         return {
             'statusCode': 200,
             'body': challenge_answer
         }
     

   • select below Yandex Service account you created earlier
   • set timeout settings to 5 sec
   • set variable SLACK_BOT_TOKEN, with key Bot User OAuth Token from your notes
   • set variable SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET, with key Signing Secret from your notes
   • click Create version
   • copy Function ID to your notes

6. Go back to Yandex API-Gateway Settings in Yandex Cloud with name for-slack-bot:

   • add POST spec below👇:

     paths:
       /:
         get:
           x-yc-apigateway-integration:
               type: dummy
               content:
                 '*': Hello, World!
               http_code: 200
               http_headers:
                 Content-Type: text/plain
         post:
           x-yc-apigateway-integration:
               type: cloud_functions
               function_id: `Function ID`
               service_account_id: `Service Account ID`
           operationId: slack-challenge
     

7. Go back to API Slack settings:

   • go to Basic Information -> Add features and functionality -> -> Event Subscribtions -> Enable Events
   • click On
   • paste Server Url from your API Gateway here
   • if it is ok you will see message Verified
   • below click Subscribe to bot events
   • then click Add Bot User Event and add event called message.im
   • click Save Changes
   • you will see pop-up Success!
   • go to Features -> App Home and select Your App’s Presence in Slack
   • click Always Show My Bot as Online
   • select Show Tabs
   • click Allow users to send Slash commands and messages from the messages tab

8. Go back to Yandex Cloud Function in Yandex Cloud:

   • delete old temp code from index.py file
   • copy and paste code from index.py to file index.py in Yandex Cloud Function Editor
   • create file requirements.txt in Yandex Cloud Function Editor
   • copy and paste data from requirements.txt to file requirements.txt in Yandex Cloud Function Editor
   • click Create Version

9. Reopen Your Slack APP on your Windows\Linux OS

10. Everything should work 🙂