[TBA]: TBA to Slack integration

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Originally Posted by mikhail

This is so cool. Thanks for responses guys! I went ahead and created an account on Google App Engine for myself. They gave me 60 days of free trial - plenty for this season. Then we will see. Now I'm thinking what programming language to use. I'd guess following TBA it would be Python, right? Shall we create a project on GitHub? Of course it must be open source, not a tiny doubt about that.

App Engine actually has a free tier, and you shouldn't need any more resources that that. Python works nicely on App Engine, so that's a perfectly fine choice (other GAE choices are Java, Go, and PHP)

Originally Posted by joelg236

Can I suggest a simple nodejs app that ingests TBA through this and serves slack JSON?

example

I'm not sure that library works if webhooks are used. The server wouldn't actually poll the TBA API, the flow would go something like this:

TBA ---(webhook)---> GAE (process, format) -----(Slack Message)---> Slack