Elevate Your Workflow with Our New Slack API Tools

Hamilton (Venus)
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Hello everyone,

Following a few discussions, I’m excited to release two new versions of our Slack interface, along with details about a third option. The Slack API is a haven for software engineers, offering a slick interface that greatly facilitates integration. For a deeper insight into its synergies with Python, check out this informative article: Python and Slack: A Natural Match. Slack is widely adopted in large corporations, where it serves not only as a repository for corporate know-how but also supports user interface dialog boxes, JIRA integration, and effective search history. It also harkens back to the days of IRC, where enthusiasts could engage in real-time discussions on various channels.

Here are the three integration options I’ve developed for VENUS with Slack:

  1. Centralized Log Collection (beta): This is the approach we currently use, where companies with multiple STAR robots can aggregate logs in a central location. This facilitates not only real-time tracking of status but also the development of a GPT model that can resaon about biological issues from relevant protocol logs. For this, a datalake is necessary to aggregate the logs, and I am using open-source Elasticsearch along with scripts for configuration and deployment instructions. This is available today as a pip package:

    pip install robotmonitor

    Note: This is a beta version! Please don’t hesitate to contact me at leofer@gmail.com for any questions.

  2. Direct Log to Slack (beta): I’m also releasing a second Python package that enables scripts to directly read logs and send them to Slack (also in beta):

    pip install robottrace

  3. Direct Slack API Calls via HTTP (pre-release): Those two options read the log, and so are not part of VENUS at all. I’m also working on a VENUS package that uses HTTP to directly use Slack API. However, I am currently encountering an SSL/TLS secure channel error. More details will be provided in a separate thread, as this issue appears to be common (see here: Venus 6 Upgrade HTTPRequest Error.

Thank you for your attention, and I look forward to your feedback!

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