slack -- CLI Slack Viewer

slack is a command line tool for reading messages in Slack.

Install

go get -u github.com/moutend/slack/cmd/slack

Setup

Before starting, you need prepare API tokens for this tool.

1. Visit api.slack.com/apps.
2. Create new app.
3. Add the following OAuth scopes:

• Bot scope
  • users:read
• User scope
  • channels:history
  • channels:read
  • groups:history
  • groups:read
  • im:history
  • im:read
  • mpim:history
  • mpim:read

4. After setting the scopes, install the app.
5. Your bot and user API tokens are issued.
6. Set the environement variables like this:

export SLACK_BOT_API_TOKEN="xxxxxxxx"
export SLACK_USER_API_TOKEN="zzzzzzzz"

That's it!

Usage

Print about yourself

slack whoami

Print active users

slack users

Print active channels

slack channels

Print public conversations

slack messages general

Print private conversations

slack messages @someone

LICENSE

MIT

Author

Yoshiyuki Koyanagi <moutend@gmail.com>