sql2slack

SQL2Slack

a cron deamon that executes the specified sql query and forward its result to slack ()

Features

• Tiny & Portable.
• Works with multiple sql engine.
• Customize the slack message using javascript as well underscore.js.
• Cron like syntax for scheduling sql jobs.
• Uses hcl language for structured configurations.
• Ability to define a job per single file for future maintainability of large jobs.

Quick Overview

job tst {
    // slack-channel webhook url
    channel = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

    // which sql driver do you use?
    driver = "mysql"

    // data source name (connection string)
    dsn = "root:root@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/dbname"

    // the query this is a multiline example, you can just write the following
    // query = "select * from users"
    query = <<SQL
        SELECT users.* FROM users;
    SQL

    // cron like syntax
    schedule = "* * * * *"

    // here you need to build the text message that will be sent 
    // to the slack channel.
    // ------- 
    // say(....): a function that will append the specified arguments into the main slack text message.
    // log(....): a logger function, for debugging purposes.
    // $rows: a variable that holds the output of the query execution.
    message = <<JS
        if ( $rows.length < 1 ) {
            return
        }

        say("there are (", $rows.length, ") new users!")
        say("users list is:")

        _.chain($rows).pluck('name').each(function(name){
            say("- ", name, " .")
        })
    JS
}

Integrating Slack

1. Go there.
2. Click on Create New App.
3. Choose Incoming Webhooks and activate it.
4. Scroll down to Add New Webhook to Workspace and follow the instructions.
5. Scroll down to the webhooks table, and copy the generated webhook url.

Available SQL Drivers

Installation

• Binaries
• Docker

Notes

• by default sql2slack uses the current working directory as jobs files source, you can override that using --jobs-dir flag.
• each job file must have the .s2s.hcl suffix.