Introduction

A slack app to help developers in the quick error debugging by auto searching. Post an Error in a specified slack channel & return the top results from Stackoverflow.com with links.

Setup:

1. Create a new environment with following variables.
2. stackExUrl (https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2)
3. SlashServerUrl (deploy this Flask code)

4. slackWebhookUrl

5. SlashServerUrl: Create a new slack app & Slash command. Give the Endpoint IP, port while creating the slash command. refer here

6. sample endpoint using python-flask

7. SlackWebhookUrl: Slack allows you to generate incoming webhooks for your team using which you can send a message to a specific channel or user. Go to Slack to learn more about how you can generate one.

Once you have all these three, you can add them to the attached environment and your collection is ready for use.

A sample look something like this:

• A VSCode extension/ Jupyter extension of this will be helpful.

What we learned

• postman features, slack bot integrations, jupyter extensions

What's next for Auto Stackoverflow Search Bot

• Converting to Jupyter & VS code extensions

Built With

• flask
• postman
• python