Slack Bot for the Advent of Code

In this festive time, a colleague created a private Leaderboard and invited every dev where I work to participate. I was very exited and after completing the first challenge I thought something was missing to engage others.

A Slack Bot that show the progress of every participants.

Thanks to this repo, tomswartz07/AdventOfCodeLeaderboard that gave me the idea.

I didn't want something that posted every 10 minutes with the same score. So I made a Rails app (because this's what I know) that will check if someone gained a ⭐️, save it and then send the new LeaderBoard.

Bhacaz / Advent-of-Code-Slack-Bot Advent of Code Leaderboard bot Advent of code Slack Bot This is a Slack bot to post a Advent of code Private Leaderboard to a Slack channel when someone complete a challenge. Prerequisites: slack_url : An Incoming WebHooks url for workplace Slack.

: An Incoming WebHooks url for workplace Slack. slack_channel : The name of the channel you want to post the LeaderBoard

: The name of the channel you want to post the LeaderBoard session : A cookie session token from Advent of Code. It can be find in a request header in the devtool of your browser.

: A cookie session token from Advent of Code. It can be find in a request header in the devtool of your browser. leaderboard_id : The ID of your private Leaderboard. It can be found at the end of the url of your Leaderboard https://adventofcode.com/2019/leaderboard/private/view/<<XXXXX>>> You can create a config/application.yml file to set those env variables Running: Run the Rails server bin/rails server

Create a cron job that will fire the Incoming WebHooks if someone recently complete a challenge every 10 minutes. $ EDITOR=nano crontab -e Add this line * /10 * * * * curl http://localhost:3000/api/exec_webhook Build on: … View on GitHub

Have a look and happy Advent of Code