Slack Bot for the Advent of Code
In this festive time, a colleague created a private Leaderboard and invited every dev where I work to participate. I was very exited and after completing the first challenge I thought something was missing to engage others.
A Slack Bot that show the progress of every participants.
Thanks to this repo, tomswartz07/AdventOfCodeLeaderboard that gave me the idea.
I didn't want something that posted every 10 minutes with the same score. So I made a Rails app (because this's what I know) that will check if someone gained a ⭐️, save it and then send the new LeaderBoard.
Bhacaz
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Advent-of-Code-Slack-Bot
Advent of Code Leaderboard bot
Advent of code Slack Bot
This is a Slack bot to post a Advent of code Private Leaderboard to a Slack channel when someone complete a challenge.
Prerequisites:
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slack_url: An Incoming WebHooks url for workplace Slack. -
slack_channel: The name of the channel you want to post the LeaderBoard -
session: A cookie session token from Advent of Code. It can be find in a request header in the devtool of your browser. -
leaderboard_id: The ID of your private Leaderboard. It can be found at the end of the url of your Leaderboardhttps://adventofcode.com/2019/leaderboard/private/view/<<XXXXX>>>
You can create a config/application.yml file to set those env variables
Running:
- Run the Rails server
bin/rails server - Create a cron job that will fire the Incoming WebHooks if someone recently complete a challenge every 10 minutes.
$ EDITOR=nano crontab -e
- Add this line
*/10 * * * * curl http://localhost:3000/api/exec_webhook
Build on:
…Have a look and happy Advent of Code
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