hangman-bot

Slack bot for playing Hangman.

1. Add bot to channel
2. Start a new game by /hangman [word]
3. Guess letters by posting messages consisting of a single letter

Deployment Notes

Notes to myself for if I need to host it again.

• Apps can be configured at https://api.slack.com/apps
• Enable events, pointing to /slack/events url of hosted bot
• Subscribe to bot events:
  • message.channels
  • message.im
  • message.groups
• Add additional scopes:
  • chat.write
  • reactions.write
• Add /hangman [word] slash command, using same endpoint as events
• Host the bot somewhere, such as the Node.js Quickstart droplet
• Get an API key from https://dictionaryapi.com/ for definition lookups
• Run index.js with Node, with the following environment variables set:
  • DICTIONARY_API_KEY
  • SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET
  • SLACK_BOT_TOKEN