README.md

SASM

Send A Slack Message (SASM).

Create an App, Channel and Slack token

• Navigate to Your Apps
• Click on Create New App
• From scratch
• Choose an App Name
• Pick a workspace to develop your app in
• Create App
• Add features and functionality: Permissions
• Add an OAuth Scope in the Bot Token Scopes: chat:write
• Install to Workspace
• Create a channel and invite the bot
• Navigate to Your Apps again
• Click on app that you created
• Click on OAuth & Permissions
• Copy Bot User OAuth Token

Configure sasm

Create a directory:

mkdir ~/.sasm

Create a config file:

vim ~/.sasm/config.yml

Add a Slack token:

---
slack_channel: someSlackChannelID-clickOnChannelAndCopyTheID
slack_token: someSlackToken

Save the file. Update the permissions to ensure that you are the only one that is able to read and write to the config file:

chmod 0600 ~/.sasm/config.yml

Troubleshooting

FATA[0000] channel_not_found

Add the created bot to the channel by inviting it.