CKAN integration for slack
Searches an arbitrary CKAN instance from slack for data. You just ask databot find <x> and databot does the rest.
You can specify any CKAN endpoint with v3 of the CKAN API using on, so databot search cycling on data.gov.uk will search the data.gov.uk CKAN instance for cycling. Our default is data.gov.au because Australia needs to be first in something after our terrible Ashes performance this year.
To run, you'll need Python 2, and pip
Just clone the repo, drop into the base folder and install the Python dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt.
Then you should be good to go - you can run the Flask dev server with
python manage.py runserver
or use gunicorn to serve to the world:
./gunicorn.sh
Tell slack to push requests to databot to your IP address on port 5050 using the Outgoing Webhooks integration (see picture below)
You can get in touch with me on twitter @jesserobertson.
Databot could be a bit cleverer about how it picks datasets to return - the goodness all happens inside app/bot.py so feel free to have a play around and improve it.
I find that installing httpie is a good way to play with databot on your local machine - just do pip install httpie, then start up the dev server in the databot root directory with python manage.py runserver, and then you can do something like:
jess@host $ http post :5000 user_name=jess text="databot find cycling"
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 464
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 02:36:33 GMT
Server: Werkzeug/0.10.4 Python/2.7.10
{
"text": "Thanks @jess. I found 50 results for cycling at data.gov.au, here's the top result:\nSouth Australian residents riding a bicycle in a typical week (it's a XLS file). Get it <https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/a79f87b6-9710-4fa6-8be3-8b2f8c29ac45/resource/0fe26a5a-ca1e-4fd3-aa2c-56f8ef386272/download/2cycling2014pr.xlsx|here>.\nWant more? Check out <http://data.gov.au/dataset?q=cycling&sort=extras_harvest_portal+asc%2C+score+desc|this link>."
}
Enjoy!