plusplusbot is a Slack bot that runs as a Slack App to award points to users in your Slack workspace. You can give points to someone by typing @username++ when you want to express gratitude or celebrate their achievements. For example, when someone makes a great suggestion, successfully leads a project, or helps you out in a difficult situation, you can show your appreciation by giving them points.
This project is inspired by pluspl.us (now archived), a similar Slack bot that allows users to reward team members with imaginary points.
@username++- Add 1 point to the specified user@username--- Subtract 1 point from the specified user@username==- Check the current points of the specified user
The following settings are required to run this bot:
- Socket Mode: Enable
- Enable Event Subscriptions in the Socket Mode settings page
- App-Level Token
connections:write(for Socket Mode)
- Bot Token Scopes
app_mentions:read(to read mentions)channels:history(to read channel message history)chat:write(to send messages)user:read(to read user information)
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN- Slack bot token (starts withxoxb-)SLACK_APP_TOKEN- Slack app token (starts withxapp-)DATABASE_URL- Database file pathDEBUG- Set any value to enable debug mode
This bot uses SQLite database to persist points. The database file path is specified by the DATABASE_URL environment variable.
DATABASE_URL=file://plusplus.db
With the above configuration, a plusplus.db file will be created in the current directory.
go mod download
go build./plusplusbotMIT