This is a weekend project that started for me as a way to learn how to write old style command line interfaces. Slack is a tool a lot of programmers use today so I thought a lot of you would have interest in contributing to this effor.
This is a minimal working version, will surely have several bugs and many features are missing but I hope I find time to continue the effort to develop this project and hopefully some of you might show interest in contributing with this.
First you'll need to get yourself a Slack API Token, which you can get at: https://api.slack.com/tokens
Then clone this repo, cd and get a python environment setup:
$ git clone https://github.com/mathiasbc/slacky
$ cd slacky
$ python install -r requirements.txt
Then you need to set the Slack API Token in the Environment like:
$ export SLACK_TOKEN=<my_slack_token_here>;
Finally the fun:
$ python slacky/skin.py
The idea is for Slacky to be as intuitive as the Slack original client, but we are far from that, for the moment.
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