Simple Slack bot

slackbot.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
import json
import urllib
import urllib2

token = 'xoxp-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxx'
bot_name = 'gunyabot'

class SlackClient:
    def __init__(self, token, bot_name='gunyabot'):
        self.token = token
        self.bot_name = bot_name
        self.channels = self.get_channels()

    @staticmethod
    def encoded_dict(in_dict):
        out_dict = {}
        for k, v in in_dict.iteritems():
            if isinstance(v, unicode):
                v = v.encode('utf8')
            elif isinstance(v, str):
                # Must be encoded in UTF-8
                v.decode('utf8')
            out_dict[k] = v
        return out_dict

    def request(self, request='?', post_data={}, domain='slack.com'):
        post_data['token'] = self.token
        enc_post_data = urllib.urlencode(self.encoded_dict(post_data))
        url = 'https://{}/api/{}'.format(domain, request)
        response = urllib2.urlopen(url, enc_post_data)
        response_str = response.read()
        response_obj = json.loads(response_str)
        if not response_obj['ok']:
            raise ValueError
        return response_obj

    def get_channels(self):
        d = {}
        for channel in self.request('channels.list')['channels']:
            d[channel['name']] = channel
        return d

    def post_message(self, channel_name, text):
        post_data = {
            'channel': self.channels[channel_name]['id'],
            'text': text,
            'username': self.bot_name,
        }
        self.request('chat.postMessage', post_data)

sc = SlackClient(token, bot_name)
print sc.post_message('zatsudan', u'なぜかSlackのbot作りに詳しくなるマン')