Hubot-Assistant

Hubot Assistant uses Google's Assistant API to integrate an assistant into hubot. This can be used to add an AI assistant to a slack channel.

Prerequisites

You will need a hubot to use this function with. You can download existing hubots or create your own here: https://hubot.github.com/.

You will also need to obtain a Google API oAuth JSON to authenticate your assistant - this can be obtained here: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis. This JSON needs to be copied into the secrets.json and the path to this file must be stored in an environment variable named HUBOT_ASSISTANT_SECRET. You will also need to create an environment variable named HUBOT_ASSISTANT_TOKEN to store the path to the tokens.json file.

export HUBOT_ASSISTANT_SECRET="/some/path/secret.json"
export HUBOT_ASSISTANT_TOKEN="/some/path/token.js"
export HUBOT_DEFAULT_ADMIN="skbrown333"

The first time you run this it will open an authentication link and you will need to paste and enter the code into the console.

You will also need to add hubot-assistant to the external-scripts of your hubot.

Installing

npm install --save hubot-assistant

Warnings

Some commands will send the assistant into a loop such as:

google play mad libs

google tune my guitar

You can get out of this loop by saying:

google quit

(it could take a couple of tries).

In order to prevent this from happening you can blacklist certain words such as

blacklist add play

blacklist remove play

blacklist list

Only admins have access to the blacklist and admin list. First time use you will need to add a slack username to the environment variable HUBOT_DEFAULT_ADMIN.

admins add skbrown333

admins remove skbrown333

admins list

Authors

• Steffan Brown - Initial work - (https://github.com/skbrown333/hubot-assistant)