How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco

Re:How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in S... by shortsightedsid on Sunday August 28, 2016 @12:15PM (#12377080)

The headline is slightly click-bait. Most the work is outside slack - parsing Craigslist, classifying etc.. The slack channel bit is one part of the puzzle. The article itself says there are 4 steps and devotes 2 paras to slack.

I guess the author chose slack in the title because it will result in eyeballs rather than saying how he used Python, craigslist because they aren't "sexy".

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Re:How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in S... by amazingman on Sunday August 28, 2016 @12:59PM (#12377262)

You're really reaching for something to complain about. Why?

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Re:How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in S... by shortsightedsid on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:42AM (#12380216)

I found the work on classifying the results, sorting them more interesting. Posting to a slack channel as a bot today could easily have been a perl script bot writing to an IRC channel 10 years ago. That's hardly innovative. The really useful part to me was the access to craigslist, classification of data etc.. I'm sure there are better way of using Slack.

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Re:How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in S... by wineisfine on Sunday August 28, 2016 @01:26PM (#12377396)

I guess the answer is in his user name :)

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Re:How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in S... by pop8row9 on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @02:54PM (#12392834)

You guys can be real dicks to people who express slightly alternate opinions.

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