Embed CPTDB forum comments in Slack and/or Discord.

• Install Python dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Ensure that the Roboto font is installed on your system.
• Set the following environment variables in .env:

FLASK_PORT=27832
FLASK_BASE_URL=http://your.server.ip:27832

• Create a Slack app with the OAuth Bot Token scopes links:read and links:write.
• Subscribe to the link_shared bot event with the Request URL set to http://your.server.ip:27832/slack/events.
  • Enable Delayed Events to catch events during downtime.
  • Set the App unfurl domain to cptdb.ca.
• Set the following environment variables in .env:

SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-your-slack-bot-token
SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=slack-signing-secret

• Create a Discord app with the Send Messages Bot Permission.
• Set the following environment variable in .env:

DISCORD_TOKEN=your-discord-bot-token

# Slack only
python slack_bot.py



# Discord only
python discord_bot.py



# Both (Make sure the Slack bot is running first so the Discord bot can use the same Flask server)
python slack_bot.py
python discord_bot.py



# Run in background (Unix-like systems)
python  ~/cptdb-post-embedder/slack_bot.py >gt; /dev/null 2>&1;&1 & disown
sleep 1  # Ensure the Flask server is up
python  ~/cptdb-post-embedder/discord_bot.py >gt; /dev/null 2>&1;&1 & disown

Slack: this bot will automatically unfurl CPTDB comment links shared in channels it has access to.

Discord: run /cptdb then enter a CPTDB comment link in the prompt. The bot will send an embed of the comment.