Homework 2: Slackbot

A super fun slackbot that can do various things. It can respond to a question about time, let you know if today is a class day, and even call a movie API and respond with facts about movies.

by: Josh Rotenberg

1. What time is it?

• Uses: bot.hear
• Description: Listens for "What time is it" and then responds with Wine O'clock statement and the actual time.
• Logic:
  • pulls hours and minutes from new Date()
  • if/else to determine AM/PM

2. Do we have class?

• Uses: bot.hear
• Description: Listens for "Is there class today", and responds.
• Logic:
  • pulls weekday from new Date()
  • if/else checks against today's weekday and responds in kind

3. Movie Responder

Tell me about the movie [insert title]

• Uses: bot.respond
• Description: Listens for "Tell me about the movie", extracts title, and then responds with movie details.
• Logic:
  • calls omdbapi using extracted title
  • stores movie title => bot.brain.set(BRAIN_KEY, movie[1]);
  • responds with:
    • sets greeting based on Rotten Tomatoes score
      • used parseInt to convert score string to integer
    • plot
    • rotten tomatoes score
    • lists awards
    • lists poster

Tell me more

• Uses: bot.hear
• Description: Listens for "Tell me more", uses stored title from previous question, and then responds wit more movie details.
• Logic:
  • grabs stored movie title => bot.brain.get(BRAIN_KEY, movie[1]);
  • calls omdbapi using stored title
  • responds with:
    • title, year, writer, director, actors...

Unsolved Issues

• Regex for title needs work. apostrophes will break it, maybe on the API side?
• need to add logic if reviews don't exist