iOS Reviews SlackBot

A slackbot that pulls the latest iOS/iTunes review for your application and posts it to slack!

Requirements

• python3
• A valid slack webhook, i.e, of the form https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
• boto3 + requests (from requirements.txt)
• python-lambda-local

Running

Install the dev requirements:

pip3 install -r requirements-dev.txt

The following variables are needed in the script:

• SlackChannel: The slack channel you want the bot to post to (@username for DMs).
• SlackUsername: The username the bot will use.
• SlackEmoji: The emoji the slackbot will use.
• SlackWebhook: The Slack WebHook is pulled from AWS's SSM using boto3—the parameter name is set as SSMParameter
• redispw: The redis password is pulled from AWS's SSM, parameter name is assumed to be redispw-SSMparam

To deploy the lambda function via python-lambda-local

python3 -m venv .
. bin/activate
pip install python-lambda
pip install -r requirements.txt
lambda deploy