Slack Bot for Redash V2

Redashbot V2 is a open-source slack bot for Redash.

(This project was forked from hakobera/redashbot, but it is not maintained anymore. I have rewritten almost all of the code and published as v2.)

Features

• Visualization(Chart) screenshot
• Dashboard screenshot
• Table result (NOT SCREENSHOT)
• Docker deployment
• Serverless deployment
• HTTP-based New Slack app (non-RTM style)
• Open source!

Usage

• Visualization
  • @botname <Query URL>#<Viz ID>
    • e.g. @redash https://your-redash-server.example.com/queries/1#2
• Dashboard
  • @botname <Dashboard URL>
    • e.g. @redash https://your-redash-server.example.com/dashboards/dashboard-name
• Table
  • @botname <Query URL>#table
    • e.g. @redash https://your-redash-server.example.com/queries/1#table

Setup

Create a Slack app and set environment variables SLACK_BOT_TOKEN and SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET.

The Official Document.

On Event Subscription page, Request URL will be https://<your-domain>/slack/events.

Then, npm start or docker run yamitzky/redashbot:main to start. When you use Docker, do not forget to pass environment variable via -e or .env file.

Slash Command (Optional)

You can use redashbot with /redash-capture [URL].

On Slash Command page of your app, click [Create New Command] and submit. Command must be /redash-capture and Request URL will be https://<your-domain>/slack/events.

Workflow Steps (Optional)

You can use redashbot as a Workflow step.

On Interactivity & Shortcuts page of your app, enable Interactivity. Request URL will be https://<your-domain>/slack/events.

Then, move to Workflow Steps page, and click [Add Step] and submit. Callback ID must be redash_capture.

Environment variables

SLACK_BOT_TOKEN (required)

Slack's bot token.

SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET (required)

Slack's sigining secret.

REDASH_HOST and REDASH_API_KEY (optional)

Redash's URL and its API Key.

REDASH_HOST_ALIAS (optional)

Redash' URL accessible from the bot.

REDASH_HOSTS_AND_API_KEYS (optional)

If you want to use multiple Redash at once, specify this variable like below

REDASH_HOSTS_AND_API_KEYS="http://redash1.example.com;TOKEN1,http://redash2.example.com;TOKEN2"

or if you need to specify REDASH_HOST_ALIAS for each Redash, like below

REDASH_HOSTS_AND_API_KEYS="http://redash1.example.com;http://redash1-alias.example.com;TOKEN1,http://redash2.example.com;TOKEN2"

SLEEP_TIME (optional)

Milliseconds to wait loading finished before capturing.

BROWSER (optional and experimental)

chromium, firefox or webkit. default is chromium

How to develop

Clone this repository, then

$ npm install
$ export REDASH_HOST=https://your-redash-server.example.com
$ export REDASH_API_KEY=your-redash-api-key
$ export SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=your-slack-bot-token
$ node index.js

Deploy

Redashbot is just a node program.

npm start

Docker

Docker image is provided. Currently, latest tag is used for v1(old), then you must use 2.0.0 or something like that.

docker run -it --rm -e SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=$SLACK_BOT_TOKEN -e SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=$SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET -e REDASH_HOSTS_AND_API_KEYS=$REDASH_HOSTS_AND_API_KEYS -p 3000:3000 yamitzky/redashbot:2.0.0

docker-compose is also provided.

docker-compose up

Heroku (NOT TESTED!!!!!!!!)

You can easy to deploy redashbot to Heroku, just click following button.