A Slack plugin for expanding aliases to actual people

It does the following:

1. Anytime an @ mention of a key in the alias_maps is used, it will expand that to post the values into the window

git clone https://github.com/gsingers/slack-alias-plugin.git
cd slack-alias-plugin
npm install

Write your own configuration file (config-example.js) is a good starting point for building your own.

var slackbot = require('./lib/bot');

var config = {
    bot_name: "",//Provide the name to post under
    token: 'XXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXX',
    alias_maps: {
      "BAR": ["cool", "aliases"],
      "FOO": ["bar"],
    },

    helpName: "ALIASHELP",
    verbose: true,
    emoji: ":slack:",
    link_separator: ", "// use \n if you want new lines
};

//DO NOT EDIT BELOW HERE
var slackbot = new slackbot.Bot(config);
slackbot.run();

Save this to a file in the root of the project then run your bot with:

node your-config-file, eg.: node config-gsingers

This will launch the bot in your terminal based on provided configuration.

• token: Your Slack API token, get your token at https://api.slack.com/
• alias_maps: The mappings between alias names and values. For instance, a mention of @FOO will expand to @bar in the channel
• verbose: print logging info
• emoji: The emoji to use for the bot. You may need to create a JIRA emoji for the current one to work, else replace w/ your favorite slack emoji
• link_separator: The text to use to separate links in the response.

• Make the lists updateable in slack