mailchimp-slack-list-updates

Get mailing list updates from MailChimp in your Slack channel 🚀

Features

• Runs on serverless (AWS Lambda by default, but configurable for other providers in serverless.yml)
• Gets the number of subscribers in a MailChimp list
• Hits a Slack webhook with a message
• Three random emoji included in each message 💎 🌮 🐳
• Runs every other day (customizable in serverless.yml)

Example Message

Mailing list subscriber count as of today: *80* :dromedary_camel: :open_book: :baby_chick:

Deploy

Follow these steps to get started. You'll need:

• A MailChimp api key (MAILCHIMP_API_KEY)
• A MailChimp list id (MAILCHIMP_LIST_ID)
• A Slack incoming webhook (SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL)

Then, to deploy:

$ serverless deploy

Then set the environment variables (from above) in the Lambda console.

To test immediately (without waiting for the scheduled event), invoke the function from the CLI:

$ serverless invoke --function run

Test

Run tests with npm test. Check code coverage with npm run coverage.