Send a message to someone in Slack from the commandline.
Requires a Slack API token in order to function. More about getting a token here: https://api.slack.com/tokens
Requires slackclient and argparse modules:
pip install slackclient argparse
$ python3 slackit.py -h
usage: slackit.py [-h] [-v] -u USER -m MESSAGE
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose Turn on debug messages.
required arguments:
-u USER, --user USER Email address used for the Slack user you want the
message to go to.
-m MESSAGE, --message MESSAGE
Text to send user.
$ python3 slackit.py -u bb@zbeba.com -m "This is a test." -v
GMT 2016-10-20 20:27:26.675 Begin execution.
GMT 2016-10-20 20:27:26.675 Get user list...
GMT 2016-10-20 20:27:26.679 Starting new HTTPS connection (1): slack.com
GMT 2016-10-20 20:27:27.220 "POST /api/users.list HTTP/1.1" 200 None
GMT 2016-10-20 20:27:27.518 Starting new HTTPS connection (1): slack.com
GMT 2016-10-20 20:27:27.820 "POST /api/chat.postMessage HTTP/1.1" 200 168
Message sent successfully.
GMT 2016-10-20 20:27:27.822 End execution.