An Electron app that runs Slack locally, pulls out your unread messages, and summarizes them using GPT-3 so you don't have to read all of them.
This app runs and accesses Slack in a hidden browser window; no data is shared with any remote services besides the message content being summarized by OpenAI. (Message content is sent to OpenAI's API in a semi-anonymized fashion in order to summarize it.)
This app is a proof of concept and comes with no warranty or guarantees. Enjoy!
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The app is an Electron app, which means it's a Node.js web app that runs in a version of Chromium on your local computer. The app uses remix-electron for its basic structure, with React and Tailwind for the very lovely frontend you can see.
To get the data from Slack, the app uses puppeteer-in-electron (pie) to instrument slack.com. Once you log in and establish a session (See: routes/login/$slug.tsx, storeCredentials), puppeteer waits for the Slack web client to load in a headless window (See: SlackUnreadsLoader), and issues some additional API requests to make sure message content is loaded. The app listens to Slack's internal API call results (See: SlackPageDataModel), and then gathers unread content (channels, threads and DMs) for display & summarization.
Summarizing is the easy part: We take the Slack messages pulled from the previous step and add a prompt to GPT-3, then OpenAI gives us back the summary. We do our best to maintain usernames for display in this step. Welcome to the future.
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To install our app's dependencies, run the following command:
npm install
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To start the app in development mode, run the dev script:
npm run dev
The following scripts are defined in the package.json file:
prepare: This sets up remix dependencies after an install. Don't remove this!dev: Starts the app with hot reloading. Uses nodemon to restart the app when main process files change.build: Builds the app for production. Uses Electron Builder to create a distributable package.start: Starts the app in production mode. Make sure you ranbuildfirst.