slackcat

Slackcat is a simple commandline utility to post snippets to Slack.

Usage

Pipe command output:

$ echo -e "hi\nthere" | slackcat --channel general --filename hello
file hello uploaded to general

Post an existing file:

$ slackcat -c general /home/user/bot.png
file bot.png uploaded to general

Installing

Download the latest release for your platform:

OS X

curl -Lo slackcat https://github.com/vektorlab/slackcat/releases/download/v0.7/slackcat-0.7-darwin-amd64
sudo mv slackcat /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/slackcat

Linux

wget https://github.com/vektorlab/slackcat/releases/download/v0.7/slackcat-0.7-linux-amd64 -O slackcat
sudo mv slackcat /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/slackcat

Configuration

Generate a new Slack token with:

slackcat --configure

A new browser window will be opened for you to confirm the request via Slack, and you'll be returned a token.

Create a Slackcat config file and you're ready to go!

echo '<your-slack-token>' > ~/.slackcat

Options

Option	Description
--tee, -t	Print stdin to screen before posting
--noop	Skip posting file to Slack. Useful for testing
--channel, -c	Slack channel or group to post to
--filename, -n	Filename for upload. Defaults to given filename or current timestamp if reading from stdin.