🧑‍💻 Slack Status Updater

It's boring to manually click on slack, find how update emoji on status, or even add a custom message.

As you are lazy, you want a command line tool that can do this for you.

That's why I created this tool:

Let's install it and explore how use it...

Installation

Make sure you have PHP (>=8.0) and Composer installed. Then

composer global require barth/php-slack-status-updater

You have to export in your path the global composer binary path

Or you can find the latest phar in the release tab

Configuration

You have to create an app on slack with following scopes:

• users:write
• users.profile:write

Then, install it into your slack workspace, and retrieve a token for your user.

Save your token by launching the following command:

slack-status-updater auth

How To Use

To manually change your status message or emoji, launch:

slack-status-updater update-status --message="Hello teams" --emoji=wave

Note that message and emoji option are optionnal.

There is two dedicated script for the wakeup and shutdown.

# Mark you as active on slack
slack-status-updater wakeup [--message="Hello teams" --emoji=wave]

# Mark you as absent on slack
slack-status-updater shutdown [--message="See you later" --emoji=zzz]

Auto scripts

If you are really lazy, you can configure startup script and shutdown script to handle this for you.

Launch the following command:

slack-status-updater generate-script

And answer to the questions. If you leave blank for emoji, the script will use a random emoji ✨

⚠️ Currently, script generation only work for Linux. It register an autostart application in ~/.config/autostart/. Need freedesktop

Contribute ?

You know how to generate auto script on windows on MacOs ? You want improve the commands output ? Add an awesome feature ?

You are more than welcome 🤗