scrapinghub/slackbot

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1279 stars · 389 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Python library for building chat bots for Slack, based on the Slack Real Time Messaging API. It provides a simple plugin mechanism, concurrent message handling, and automatic reconnection.

Use cases

• build a slack bot in python
• respond to slack messages with custom commands
• create a plugin-based slack chatbot
• send slack attachments from a bot
• route bot errors to a slack channel
• automate replies in a slack workspace

When to choose

• you want a lightweight, plugin-based Python framework for a Slack bot using the RTM API
• you need concurrent message handling and automatic reconnection out of the box
• you prefer simple decorator-based message handlers

When to avoid

• you need the newer Slack Events API or Socket Mode, which this RTM-based library does not use
• you need a full-featured bot framework with NLU or rich interactive components
• you need actively developed features, as the project is in maintenance mode

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

chatbot plugin-system websocket chatbots messaging-platforms developer-tools python cross-platform slack rtm-api bot-framework messaging automation

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