- Given a slack slash
/teme [folderName] [top-text;bottom-text]does the following- retrieves a random image from the specified
folderName - appends text to the image in a meme format with the specified
[top-text;bottom-text] - The interface looks like this - where you're given a preview of the image and can shuffle until it finds a random photo in the folder that you're happy with - where the folder exists in the storage provider of choice (currently only dropbox is supported).
- retrieves a random image from the specified
- An amalgamation of "meme" and "team".
- Fun fact: this was initially called
meme-say. I was inspired by cow-say and thought it would be great to bring this to slack.
Folder names are usually the name of a slack team member. For example if you wanted to meme your team member called Alex - there would be a folder called alex, with a collection of alex images. You can channel meme alex with imagery with /teme alex i heart;e2e.
- Get your dropbox API key by creating a Dropbox App. Ensure it's a secret/ inserted as an ENV variable (fly.io does this nicely)
- Scope set up is important.
- In Dropbox - ensure you have folders which will correlate with a name/meme entity.
- I used fly.io to deploy this app.
- Do not forget to set secret/set environment variable for
DROPBOX_API_KEYbefore deploying!
- Within Slack - go to Your Apps and
Create New App - Go to
Slash Commandsand create a new command/teme- Request Url Should be the endpoint of flyour deployed app
- It's nice to give a hint like:
name-of-person first-line;second-line
- Install the app to your workspace
- In the channel you want to post a teme, try
/teme [name-of-person] hello;world!
- Support for more Storage platforms. AWS S3 next.
- A web interface for adding people and photos.
graph LR
1[Slack /teme folderName text]
2[API]
3["StorageClient(Dropbox currently)"]
1 --> 2
2 --Retrieves random image from--> 3
3 --> 2
2 --Applies text to image and uploads to--> 3
3 --send public URL of image--> 2
2 --request back with image--> 1