wiki-postbot/README.md

wiki-postbot

Bot to add tweets using an extended wikilink syntax to the wiki

Starting with twitter, but then will add masto

Mediawiki

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Creating_a_bot

• Go to Special:BotPasswords
• Permissions
  • Edit existing pages
  • Create, edit, and move pages
• save to mediawiki_creds.json like

{
	"user": "Jonny@wikibot",
	"password": "<THE BOT PASSWORD>"
}

Slack

Using the python-slack-sdk https://slack.dev/python-slack-sdk/

Make App

https://slack.dev/python-slack-sdk/socket-mode/index.html

• Make slack app - https://api.slack.com/apis/connections/socket#setup
• Assign to workplace
• Permissions
  • channels:history
  • channels:read
  • app_mentions:read
  • chat:write
  • links:read
  • reactions:read
  • reactions:write
  • users:read
• Create App-level token with connections:write
• Configure app
  • Enable socket mode - https://api.slack.com/apis/connections/socket#toggling
  • Enable Events - message.channels