Serverless stackoverflow slack integration

A stack overflow integration for slack in nodejs

Description

• slackOverflow is a serverless app that quickly searches relevant stack overflow questions
• Deployed as a NodeJS AWS Lambda using the Serverless Framework
• /overflow [search term] to get the top 5 most relevant questions from stack overflow visible only to you

Setup

1. Create a new app for your workspace

2. In the features section add a new Slash command with the following properties:

   - Command: /overflow
   - Request URL: https://tvsvw1r7dd.execute-api.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/production/
   - Short Description: Quick Stack Overflow search
   - Usage Hint: [search terms]
   

   As long as you keep the request URL you can customize the rest of the properties as you wish

3. In OAuth & Permissions > Scope section add a permission scopes for "commands"

Developing

If you want to host your own serverless slackOverflow service

1. Install serverless

   npm install -g serverless

2. If you've never used serverless before:

   Get your security credentials (Access key ID and Secret Access key) for your AWS Lambda account:

   serverless config credentials --provider aws --key ACCESS_KEY_ID --secret --SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

3. Install npm packages

   npm install

4. Deploying to AWS Lambda

   serverless deploy

Contributing

• Please use the issue tracker if you find a bug, error or feature requests.