Slackmarks | Crio #IBD Challenge

Sometimes, we want to store important web-pages in our Slack personal workspace. What if we can automate this ?

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In my project Slackmarks, which I’ve made as a part of Crio.Do #IBelieveinDoing — Remote Working Tools Edition, a user can send their favorite website to a personal workspace in Slack.

Crio #IBD - Remote Working Tools Edition

How to achieve this?

Set up Slack Bot

• Let’s say your workspace name is “myspace”
• Head to Slack apps > https://myspace.slack.com/apps
• Search for Bots
• Click Add Configuration and give it a username (say bookmarks-bot), purpose, etc.
• A Bot token starting with xoxb- will be generated.
• Clone this Repo.
• Change the Token and channel name in config.js accordingly.
• Visit chrome settings & ensure that the Developer mode is turned on in extensions.
• Click Load unpacked extension.
• Select the directory.
• 🎉 It’s done!

Slack-bot picture

How to use ?

• Press Cmd + B
• Or Right-click mouse and select Slack this
• A notification comes from bookmarks-bot
• All your bookmarks are saved in bookmarks-bot chat window.

Demo Video!

To demonstrate the usage of the extension and its working, here’s a Demo Video for better understanding!

Links for reference:

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Crio-WFH/Slack-extensions/tree/main/Slackmarks