In this tutorial, we’ll learn about how we can send messages to Slack via the Command Line. Slack is an extremely popular collaboration tool due to its amazing set of integrations. The tool we’ll use today does not need any integration however, it only requires your personal Slack Token. Let’s get started.
Installation
The tool we’ll be using is call Slack-Cli, If you have NPM or Node installed, you can get this tool with a simple
note the -g global flag, this will make the slackcli command available globally anywhere from the command line.
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Usage
Npm Slack Download
First we need to get our slack token from https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens, this is the only thing you’ll need to make this work. Now head over to the command line and send a message to Slack with:
replace your token for the -t value. You should now see a message from user name Pentacode in your Slack channel! It’s that simple. Now I don’t want to send/type my token every time I send a message, so I am going to store my token as a value somewhere, for the sake of simplicity, I will store it as a command line variable:
now you can simplify the above command as:
Npm Slack Client
looks much better!
This tool has more options for you to customize your message, you can even attach a file to it, this means you can build literately anything you want with this tool, perhaps a bot? 🙂
I hope you enjoy this quick little tutorial and find the tool useful.
Npm Slack Client
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