Writing a Slackbot in 40 lines of code (Part 3)

medium-slackbot-3.js

app.post('/post', function(req, res){
  var parsed_url = url.format({
    pathname: 'https://api.genius.com/search',
    query: {
      access_token: process.env.GENIUS_ACCESS,
      q: req.body.text
    }
  });

  request(parsed_url, function (error, response, body) {
    if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
      var data = JSON.parse(body);
      var first_url = data.response.hits[0].result.url;

      var body = {
        response_type: "in_channel",
        text: first_url
      };

      res.send(body);
    }
  });
});