news-bot

What is this?

This is a news bot that utilizes AWS services and Slack. The purpose of this bot is to display news articles. The user can type a command that will display the news they want from a certain source in slack.

Created mainly for fun but also for the 2017 AWS Chatbot Challenge.

Dependencies

Python libraries

• boto3
• time
• json
• urllib

AWS services

• Lex
• Lambda
• CloudWatch
• DynamoDB
• IAM

Slack services

• Bot integration

API

• newsapi.org

Video Demo

Todo

• Use API to get different stories based on what user wants to view
  • interactive message menus
    • top, latest, popular
    • source
  • if user chooses top stories
    • list sources that support top stories
  • same for other two
• Get text output in slack to format correctly. Weird characters like question marks showing.

Built With

• python