slack-gw-go

slack-gw

slack-gw serves two functions:

• provide a common API for all your internal (RE: inside a vpc, etc) appications to submit to without needing to embed slack tokens everywhere
• provide the ability to send to more than one channel at the same time

environment variables

SLACKTOKEN - (required) the slack token to use for your gateway

GWPORT - (optional - default: 8080) the port for the gateway to listen on

API

slack-gw only supports POST requests of JSON to /

JSON object

message - (required) the content of the message

channels - (required) a list of channels you want to send the message to

topic - (optional) If you add a topic, it will get prepended to the message in the format: 'topic - message'

Example

{
    "message": "This is a message you want to send", 
    "channels": [
        "channel1", 
        "channel2"], 
    "topic": "MYSCRIPT"
}

Test

SLACKTOKEN=sometokenhere GWPORT=8082 go run slack-gw.go

curl -vX POST http://localhost:8082 -d @input.json --header "Content-Type: application/json"