powerball

This is a stupid simple Slack bot that just draws a winner each hour from a CSV specified list. It's single purpose in design, so it's quite unlikely to be of any use to you.

powerball reads its configuration from config.yaml in the current directory. The format looks something like this:

---
:admins:
  - binford2k
  - meg
  - anna
:channel: apitesting
:token: "<my slack api token>"
:starting: "2017-12-07 13:00 UTC"

The attendee input comes (by default) from attendees.csv in the current directory. Its format is that of an attendee report dumped from EventBrite. The fields we care about can be seen in the source code.

All the options from config.yaml can also be specified on the command line. Use the --help flag for usage.

$ powerball --help

Usage : powerball [-t <token>] [-c <channel>] [-a <admins>] [--starting '2017-12-07 13:00 UTC']

         -- Starts the Powerball lotto bot.
    -t, --token TOKEN                Slack token.
    -c, --channel CHANNEL            Slack channel.
    -a, --admins ADMINS              Comma separated list of admin Slack usernames
        --attendees PATH             Path to CSV file from EventBrite containing attendees.
        --winners PATH               Path to CSV file to save the winners in.
        --starting TIME              Time to start the drawing.

    -h, --help                       Displays this help

This is super early in development and has not yet been battle tested. It might eat your kitten.

I take no liability for the use of this tool.

binford2k@gmail.com