Make sure you're using node 6.7.0 or higher. Had some issues around sockets inside of @slack/client or node-wit that didn't seem to run under node 4.
Copy env-sample.json to env.json and fill in the details.
wit.ai requires an app and some stories created. Use witai-sportsbot.zip as a starting basis, and update your env.json to the specified keys (we didn't end up using them all).
Create a Bot from your team's integration management and take note of the API key to enter into env.json
You can communicate with your Sports Bot with a number of phrases but not that only one of his response set is publicly accessible (at this stage).
- Get top five players for runs
- Get top 6 teams for tries
- (best|top|lowest|bottom|worse) (players|teams) (1-10) (stat-type)
- Show tries for Johnathan Thurston
- (stat-type) (player-name)
- What was the score between sharks and rabbits
- (team-name) (team-name)
- When is the sharks game on?
- (team-name)
- Hi sportsbot
- Who will win Game Changer
Phrasing 1 and 2 will work as it uses a public API, the rest is off an internal API that was created on the day as it required some fuzzy searching against player names.