Botkit: Any reason why bots don't hear other bots in slack?

[stelio]

I have a few integrations for apps like GitHub and Heroku, which all post to my slack channels as bots, but it seems like Botkit doesn't receive these.

Nothing on any of these events:
controller.hears('','message_received,direct_message,direct_mention,mention,ambient',function(slackBot,message) {
...
});
Any ideas?

Botkit 0.2.1 on OSX

[nobukatsu]

Try this 😃

controller.hears('(.*)',['message_received','direct_message','direct_mention','mention','ambient'],function(bot,message) {
...
});

[stelio]

@nobukatsu thanks for the response, but still doesn't seem to invoke the event.

var Botkit = require('botkit');
var slackBotToken = 'TOKEN-HERE';
var controller = Botkit.slackbot();
var slackBot = controller.spawn({
    token: slackBotToken
});

slackBot.startRTM(function(err,bot,payload) {
    if (err) {
        throw new Error('Could not connect to Slack');
    }
});

controller.hears('(.*)',['message_received','direct_message','direct_mention','mention','ambient'],function(slackBot,message) {
    console.log(message);
    console.log(message.text);
});

[anhuynh]

Try listening for the 'bot_message' event

[stelio]

@anhuynh Thanks, that worked.

controller.on('bot_message', function(bot, message) {
...
});