README.md

Pull Request bot

This script grabs a list of pull requests, formats them, and posts them to Slack to notify team members they are needed for review.

Prerequisites

• You'll need to setup an incoming webhook in slack
• You'll need a Github API key

How to use

Pull request bot operates with the following environment variables:

• GITHUB_API_KEY: github api key
• GITHUB_ORG: The organization where your repos are stored
• GITHUB_TOPIC: Use a topic here to limit the returned repositories considered for pull requests
• SLACK_CHANNEL: (optional) The channel to post to (useful for multiple teams)
• SLACK_ENDPOINT: incoming webhook URL

Running via Cron

• Run make install
• Setup a cron script to run the following at your desired intervals

  GITHUB_API_KEY="<GITHUB_API_KEY>" \
  SLACK_ENDPOINT="<SLACK_ENDPOINT>" \
  GITHUB_ORG="<GITHUB_ORG>" \
  GITHUB_TOPIC="<GITHUB_TOPIC>" \
  node cli.js
  

Running via Lambda

• Create a new blank, javascript lambda function
• run make in this repository
• Upload the resultant zip file to lambda
• configure environment variables
• click Save & Test