slacker

slacker

slacker is a tool for interacting to slack via a one-off api call. Intended to be used with automation.

Work in progress.

Installation

slacker can be installed via:

go get github.com/n3wscott/slacker/cmd/slacker

To update your installation:

go get -u github.com/n3wscott/slacker/cmd/slacker

Auth

A slackbot oauth token needs to exist in a file called token at /var/bindings/slackbot.

This token can be produced on the slack api oauth page for bots.

Usage

slacker has two commands, get and send

Interact with slack from a command line.

Usage:
  slacker [command]

Available Commands:
  get         Get a list of channels or direct messages.
  help        Help about any command
  send        Send a message or response to a channel or thread.

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for slacker

Get

Get a list of channels or direct messages.

Usage:
  slacker get [flags]
  slacker get [command]

Available Commands:
  channel     Get a list of channels.
  dm          Get a list of direct message channels.

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for get

Send

Send a message or response to a channel or thread.

Usage:
  slacker send [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help              help for send
      --id string         Channel ID to use.
      --json              Output as JSON.
      --name string       Channel Name to use, will resolve to a Channel ID.
      --reaction          Message is treated as a reaction to be added.
      --remove-reaction   Message is treated as a reaction to be removed.
      --thread string     Unique identifier of a thread's parent message.