Slack Status

A simple Slack app that updates your Slack status to the game you're currently playing on Steam, the song you're listening to on Spotify, or a recent reaction you got to one of your messages on Slack.

Firebase configuration

1. Create a new Firebase project
2. Upgrade to Blaze plan
3. Set following config variables (firebase functions:config:set service.key="value"):

{
  "steam": {
    "api_key": "xxxxxx"
  },
  "spotify": {
    "client_secret": "xxxxxx",
    "client_id": "xxxxxx",
  },
  "slack": {
    "signing_secret": "xxxxxx",
  }
}

Slack app configuration

1. Create an app on Slack
2. Enable Event Subscription

• Request url: https://<region>-<firebase-project-id>.cloudfunctions.net/events
• Subscribe to events on behalf of a user: reaction_added, reaction_removed

3. Add User Token Scopes in OAuth & Permissions

• reactions:read
• users.profile:read
• users.profile:write

4. Install App
5. Set token in Firebase config: firebase functions:config:set slack.token="xoxp-xxxxxx"

Steam configuration

(Note: This requires that your Steam profile and game details are public. You can find these settings in your Steam profile under View Profile > Edit Profile > Privacy Settings. Ensure that My profile: Public and Game details: Public are set.)

1. Get a Steam API key here
2. Get your numeric Steam ID: https://<region>-<firebase-project-id>.cloudfunctions.net/steamId?username=<your Steam display name>
3. Set steam id in Firebase config: firebase functions:config:set steam.user_id="xxxxxx"

Spotify configuration

1. Create a Spotify app here
2. Set client id, client secret and redirect url in your Firebase config: firebase functions:config:set spotify.client_id="xxxxxx" spotify.client_secret="xxxxxx" spotify.redirect_uri="https://<region>-<firebase-project-id>.cloudfunctions.net/spotifyOAuth"
3. Get a refresh token by going through the OAUTH flow https://<region>-<firebase-project-id>.cloudfunctions.net/spotifyConnect
4. Set refresh token in Firebase config: firebase functions:config:set spotify.refresh_token="xxxxxx"