Incoming Webhook "Hello World" Example

[pvzig]

• Based on this tutorial

[tjb]

While this is being created, would you be able to point me in the direction of where in the source code I could look to set this up? To expand: I specifically want to listen to an incoming webhook. I see there is a IncomingWebhook.swift but not sure how it ties into everything else.

[pvzig]

Hey Tyler,

There isn't a convenience function built into SlackKit to simplify this yet, but you could follow the example linked above (https://api.slack.com/tutorials/slack-apps-hello-world). The only difference would be you'd be using NSURLSession or something similar to send the POST instead of curl.

[tjb]

Hey pvzig,

Thanks for the response! I will try this then. Do you mind explaining (whenever you have the time -- no rush!) how IncomingWebhook.swift works in the SlackKit ecosystem?

[pvzig]

If you're authing your Slack app using OAuth, you get a response object back that can contain an "incoming_webhook" (https://github.com/SlackKit/SKServer/blob/41e7f310132e66ccd1bc239389d6c3b0fd2c35f1/Sources/SKServer/Model/OAuthResponse.swift#L41) key with some information about that webhook like the URL. Once you had this information, you could post to an authed incoming webhook without hardcoding the URL in advance.