Slackcat

Upload files and snippets to Slack chat from the command-line.

Getting started

Log in to your slack.com account and get your API token from https://api.slack.com/.

gem install slackcat
export SLACK_TOKEN=<your api token>
echo 'hello world' | slackcat -c <channel>

Usage

slackcat is used similarly to unix cat: read data from STDIN or list filenames as arguments. Multiple files will be concatenated.

Environment variables:

• SLACK_TOKEN: your token from https://api.slack.com/.
• SLACK_CHANNELS: default comma-separated list of channel names to share files
• SLACK_GROUPS: default comma-separated list of private groups to share files

Command-line options:

            --token, -k:   Slack API token
         --channels, -c:   Channels to share into
           --groups, -g:   Private groups to share into
         --filetype, -t:   File type identifier
            --title, -T:   Title of file
         --filename, -n:   Filename of file
  --initial-comment, -i:   Initial comment to add
             --help, -h:   Show this message

File uploads to slack are private by default. If you list channels, content will be shared to them.

Example usage from vim

Upload contents of buffer:

:%! slackcat

Example usage from emacs

Upload contents of region:

M-| slackcat

To make a named function:

(setenv "SLACK_TOKEN" "<your api token>")
(setenv "SLACK_CHANNELS" "<channel list")

(defun slackcat (&optional b e)
  "Upload contents of region to slack chat."
  (interactive "r")
  (shell-command-on-region b e "slackcat"))