Slack Status

Update your Slack status based on your current location.

Features

• Set Slack status depending on your current public IP (either IPv4 or IPv6)
• Customizable address to request public IP address (ip.clara.net by default)
• Option to set status expiration
• Managing saved locations from CLI
• Managing your Slack status from CLI
• Option to set "on-call" status from PagerDuty
• Option to use SSID instead of public IP to detect location
• Option to use OS location APIs?
• Option to avoid requesting to an Internet server your public IP, like using the gateway MAC address to identify the office?

I am only testing slack-status on Linux but it is expected to work on most x86 operating systems.

Getting started

Create a Slack App with proper permissions

You must either create a Slack App with users.profile:read and users.profile:write rights, and install it manually to your Slack workspace (you might have to ask a Slack administrator autorization).

When it's done you can get an OAuth Access Token (beginning by xoxp-... followed by random characters), which will be asked during initial setup.

Legacy Slack tokens should work too, but are not recommanded.

Compilation

You must have a Rust toolchain installed, if you don't have one juste install Rustup and use default settings, clone this repository, then run:

cargo build --release

Installation

You can use cargo install or copy the binary (target/release/slack-status) somewhere in your $PATH.

Initial configuration

Run slack-status in a terminal, it will launch a wizard if you haven't a configuration file yet.

By default, configuration file is created at the standard programs configuration path of your operating system:

• Linux: /home/<USER>/.config/slack-status/config.toml
• Mac: /Users/<USER>/Library/Preferences/com.nsd.slack-status/config.toml
• Windows: C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\nsd\slack-status\config\config.toml

Run slack-status automatically

If you want to run slack-status automatically you must use the non-interactive flage:

slack_status -n

SystemD services (Linux)

You can find sample SystemD timer and service in the service directory. To use them:

sudo cp services/linux/* /usr/lib/systemd/user
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable slack-status.timer
systemctl --user start slack-status.timer

Usage

To add a new location:

slack-status location add

A prompt will appear to help you create a custom status for this location.

To remove one or several locations:

slack-status location rm

A prompt will appear, you can use up and down arrows to navigate through locations and space bar to select those you want to remove.

To manually set your Slack status:

slack-status status set

A prompt will appear to help you create a status.

Use slack-status --help to see every commands available.