This one’s pretty simple, but if you have admin access to your team’s Slack account, you can use Slackbot to add automatic replies to keyword matches. If you’re a WordPress team, you’re likely familiar with the lovable Wapuu. To generate a random Wapuu bot post whenever a Wapuu is ordered up:
- Grab the latest list of Wapuu filenames from the repo on Github
- Drop any .ai or .svg files from the list, as Slack doesn’t automatically show them
- Append the full file server URL to the front of each filename
- Go to your Slackbot management area at yourteamname.slack.com/customize/slackbot
- Add a keyword match for “wapuu” or something more specific like “gimme wapuu”
- Paste that list of Wapuu URLs into the response area
- Save
- Go into any Slack channel and test your command
Now, you’re not serving up a live list of Wapuu from the repo so you run the risk of one being removed or renamed, and you’ll be missing any new ones. I wasn’t getting fancy here. Better would be to write a randomizer on your own host, to grab the list dynamically, then just use that single URL in the bot response. But this works.
The list as it exists today:
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jawordpressorg/wapuu/gh-pages/wapuu-archive/WapuuPepe.png
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jawordpressorg/wapuu/gh-pages/wapuu-archive/cheesesteak-wapuu.png
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jawordpressorg/wapuu/gh-pages/wapuu-archive/edinburgh-wapuu.png
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jawordpressorg/wapuu/gh-pages/wapuu-archive/taekwon-blue-wapuu.png
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