nestor
a programmable slack bot
robot.respond(/hello/, function(msg, done) {
msg.send("hello back", done);
});
Program Your Bot Without Any Servers
Want to integrate with a private API that belongs to your company? No problem, start coding your app in the Nestor Bot Development Environment with a very Simple Javascript API and deploy your app in seconds!
Nestor's Bot Toolkit uses Hubot's API so your existing Hubot scripts can easily be ported to Nestor.
Read the programming manual here.
- Use HTTP API's to make your bots way more powerful
- Use Environment Variables to store secrets & share your apps with others
- Version your apps' code so you can go back and forth in time
Run Your Bot App in the Browser
Want to test out your bot app without spamming your co-workers on Slack? You can debug your bot application in the browser and once you're ready you can deploy!
Nestor's Bot Toolkit comes with logging support so you can find out what's going wrong with your app. Stacktraces for crashes are also all displayed, all in the browser, so you can debug your bot apps faster.
Don't want to code your own app? No Problem!
Nestor has a large and growing library of bot apps from your favorite services such as Heroku , Pagerduty , Github , Mixpanel , Clearbit and many more!