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primitive library for c++ to access the slack real time messaging api
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README.md

SlackRtm

SlackRtm is a very minimal c++ library for the Slack Real Time Messaging protocol, with an example app (slackmqtt) that acts as a bridge between slack and an MQTT broker such as Mosquitto - this makes it particularly easy for Arduinos making use of the pubsubclient library to message a slack channel.

Features

  • At present, only allows for messages to be sent to/from slack channels - i.e. no support for private messages, private channels, etc.

Requirements

  • Linux; current only tested on Debian Jessie.
  • Required packages: cmake g++ libjson0-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libutfcpp-dev libboost-dev libmosquittopp-dev libmosquitto-dev
  • A Vagrantfile is included, so a "vagrant up" should be all that's needed to test it

slackmqtt

Installation from Source

Note that the repository includes libwebsockets as a sub-module, so when cloning the repository, run "git clone --recursive <URL>". Alternatively, to download the submodule after cloning, run "git submodule update --init --recursive".

  1. Install the required packages: "apt-get install cmake g++ libjson0-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libutfcpp-dev libboost-dev libmosquittopp-dev libmosquitto-dev"
  2. After cloning, run "make" in the root

Installation from binary package

Download the binary package slackmqtt_0.1-1_amd64.deb, then run:

dpkg --install slackmqtt_0.1-1_amd64.deb
apt-get install -f

Usage

  1. Get an API token from Slack, goto: Configure Intergrations DIY Integrations & Customizations -> Bots Pick a username -> add Intergration Note down the "API Token"

  2. Run SlackMqtt, and specifiy (at minimum) the API key:

./examples/mqtt/SlackMqtt -k "<token>"
or
/usr/bin/SlackMqtt -k "<token>"

By default, SlackMqtt expects to find an MQTT broker running on localhost, port 1883; this can be overridden by passing the "-p <port>" and/or "-h <host>" parameters.

Once running, messages in any of the Slack channels the bot is present in will be published to the MQTT topic "slack/rx/<channel>"; this can be seen by running something like "mosquitto_sub -t 'slack/rx/#'" in another terminal. The MQTT topic used can be changed by the "-r <topic>" parameter.

Messages published to the MQTT topic "slack/tx/<channel>" will be sent to the Slack channel <channel>, provided that the bot is already present in that channel (i,e. has been invited in). This MQTT topic can be changed by the "-t <topic>" parameter. E.g. to send a message to #general, run "mosquitto_pub -t 'slack/tx/general' -m 'hello, world'".

Glaring ommisions

  • No ability to send PMs
  • No systemd, upstart or init script included yet, so needs be ran directly from the console. It is able to redirect logging to syslog (parameter "-l SYSLOG"), so writing such a script probably isn't hard
  • Only tested on - and for the moment, probably only works on - Debian Jessie for amd64
  • Probably a lot more

slackrtm

TODO: Some/more documentation on the slackrtm library.