An Airtable storage module for Botkit. A lot of the code is reused from botkit-storage-firebase.
Install
yarn add botkit-storage-airtable` # or npm install --save
botkit-storage-airtable
Next, require botkit-storage-airtable and pass it a config with a apiKey, base, and tables options.
Learn how to get an Airtable apiKey
here.
To get you started, you can use this Airtable template. Make a copy and modify it according to your needs. Airtable isn't schemaless so you have to do some data modeling to build anything custom.
Then pass the returned storage when creating your Botkit controller. Botkit will do the rest.
Make sure everything you store has an id property, that's what you'll use to look it up later.
var Botkit = require('botkit');
...
const tables = ['bots', 'users', 'channels', 'teams'] # for slack, add your
Airtable table names
airtableStorage = require('botkit-storage-airtable')({
apiKey: '...',
base: '...',
tables: tables
}),
controller = Botkit.slackbot({
storage: airtableStorage
});
Note: This may vary slightly depending on the bot platform you're building
for. Just ensure to find and update the storage property of the controller with
airtableStorage
// then you can use the Botkit storage api, make sure you have an id property
var beans = {id: 'cool', beans: ['pinto', 'garbanzo']};
controller.storage.teams.save(beans);
beans = controller.storage.teams.get('cool');