Slack Bot

A CLI tool for posting messages to Slack channels.

Installation

Development Installation

pip install -e .

Build and Install Wheel

# Create wheel
python setup.py bdist_wheel

# Install from wheel
pip install dist/slack_bot-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl

Usage

# Basic usage
slack-bot post --channel CHANNEL_ID --message "Your message"

# Post message from file
slack-bot post --channel CHANNEL_ID --message-file message.txt

# Post message with thread replies
slack-bot post --channel CHANNEL_ID --message "Main message" --reply-in-thread-message "First reply" --reply-in-thread-message-message "Second reply"

# Post message with thread replies from files
slack-bot post --channel CHANNEL_ID --message "Main message" --reply-in-thread-message-file reply1.txt --reply-in-thread-message-file reply2.txt

# Enable debug mode and specify log file
slack-bot post --channel CHANNEL_ID --message "Your message" --debug --log-file /path/to/logfile.log

Command-line Options

• --channel, -c: Slack channel ID (required)
• --message, -m: Message to post
• --message-file, -mf: File containing message to post
• --reply-in-thread-message, -rm: Message to post in thread (can be used multiple times)
• --reply-in-thread-message-file, -rmf: File containing message to post in thread (can be used multiple times)
• --token, -t: Slack token (defaults to SLACK_TOKEN environment variable)
• --debug, -d: Enable debug mode
• --log-file, -l: Log file path (defaults to /tmp/slack_bot_TIMESTAMP.log)

Requirements

• Python 3.10 or higher
• Slack SDK
• Click
• Python JSON Logger
• wheel (for building wheel)

Environment Variables

• SLACK_TOKEN: Slack API token (can be overridden with --token option)