Unofficial TBA Slack Bot - Open Beta

[bdaroz]

Announcing the Unofficial TBA Slack Bot Open Beta!

The TBA Slack Bot is a powerful integration into your Slack Team's chat. It can look up and compile team and event information using the data provided by The Blue Alliance. It can also provide notifications for teams at competition.

Currently you can query:

• Basic team (name, location) information
• Detailed team information including competitions this season, rank, W-L-T, and awards
• Current event status including current rank, last and next matches, or for teams not currently at an active competition, the last and next competition information.*

* - Note: our data is only as good as TBA, and for upcoming offseason events many of them do not list teams attending

We also support the ability to follow one or more teams in each Slack channel (including DMs)*. You can get notifications for:

• Schedule Updates
• Upcoming Matches
• Match Results
• End-of-event Summary

* - Note: notifications require the offseason FMS to be connected to the internet. End-of-event Summaries require awards to be posted to the FMS, as such they are only available during official competitions.

We wish to thank all the teams that have given us feedback and suggestions so far, (especially teams 3966 and 5012) some of them are already incorporated in tbabot now. We plan to expand the abilities to cover event lookups (and event stats) in the coming weeks.

Information in the Unofficial TBA Slack Bot can be found on its GitHub page:

https://frc5881.github.io/TBASlackBot/

Along with Installation Instructions and Documentation. We have also started a FAQ as well.

We have also Open Sourced the project under the AGPL 3.0 license. We welcome feedback and suggestions via our Issue Tracker or via the tbabot feedback command. Developers are welcome to fork the code and send Pull Requests with additional features as well. (We'll even accept PRs to improve the website )

Teams looking to use our hosted tbabot should carefully read the Installation Instructions. Teams looking to host their own instance should refer to the README and design docs in the source.

Feedback from the teams using the bot so far has been exceptionally positive, and we thank them all. We're happy to open access to the rest of the FRC community and hope it is as useful to you as it is to us.

Programming Group, Team 5881
Tech Valley High School Dragons