slackup

Slackup is a simple CLI Slack client. It supports reading config from a config file, from environment variables and from parameters passed directly to the script.

Slackup will read from file if one is passed with -f. If both "message" and file is specified, file input takes precedence. Use -f - to read from STDIN.

Installation

pip install -U pyslackup

Config

~/.slackup.cfg or /etc/slackup.cfg will be read if they exist. ~/.slackup.cfg takes precedence if it is found.

slack_token: 'xoxp-YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'
slack_channel: '#slackup'
slack_username: 'slackup'
slack_emoji: ':robot_face:'

Config can also be specified via environment variables. These will override config file entries if present:

SLACK_TOKEN
SLACK_CHANNEL
SLACK_USERNAME
SLACK_EMOJI
SLACK_MESSAGE

Usage

usage: slackops [-h] [-v] [-c CHANNEL] [-t TOKEN] [-u USERNAME] [-s] [-f FILE] [message]

positional arguments:
  message               message to post to slack

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         increase output verbosity
  -c CHANNEL, --channel CHANNEL
                        specify channel to post to
  -t TOKEN, --token TOKEN
                        set token to use
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        set Slack username to post as
  -s, --snippet         Post message as attachment/snippet
  -f FILE, --file FILE  read message from file or stdin

Examples

# Command line usage example
echo 'HELLO' | slackops -c 'someotherchannel' -f -
slackops "greetings fellow kids"
slackops -s -f inputfile.txt

# ...or used as a python module
from slackup import SlackUp
s = SlackUp()
s.post("ehlo world")