The slack-responder app responds to Trello POST requests and creates Trello cards 😄. Our Slack Slash Command blog post provides a detailed walkthrough to get this app up-and-running to create cards on Trello backlog boards that correspond with Slack channels. Here's the TL;DR:
Here is a video of the slack-responder app in action.
slack-responder is set up to easily be deployed to Heroku.
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Deploy the app to Heroku (you can deploy elsewhere, but the app is all set up for Heroku).
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Get the environment variables that are required to run the app.
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Log into Trello & go to this site to get the
TRELLO_DEV_PUBLIC_KEY. -
Go to this page to get the
TRELLO_MEMBER_TOKEN: https://trello.com/1/authorize?key=[THE_APP_KEY]&name=trello-show&expiration=never&response_type=token&scope=read,write slack-responder will be creating cards, so it's imperative that scope=read,write is set. -
Go to https://[YOUR_TEAM_DOMAIN].slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook to get the
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Go to https://[YOUR_TEAM_DOMAIN].slack.com/services/new/slash-commands and create a custom slash command. Type in /work, click the button, and grab the token from the next screen. Route the POST request to http://[HEROKU_APP_NAME]/slack/work. Use this token to set the
SLACK_WORK_COMMAND_TOKEN. Create two more custom slash commands for /retro and /card and use the tokens that are provided to setSLACK_RETRO_COMMAND_TOKENand `SLACK_CREATE_CARD_COMMAND_TOKEN'.
codelitt created a Sinatra application with the same functionality as this Rails application that is meant to be deployed with Docker.
Additional features will be added soon!
Feel free to submit a pull request if you have any improvements.