localslackirc

The idea of this project is to create a localhost IRC server that functions as a gateway for one user of slack, that can connect to it with whatever IRC client they prefer or a bouncer like ZNC and keep using slack from IRC even after they shut down their IRC gateway.

Options to Obtain token

Instructions for chromium

In your browser, go to "Inspect" (developer mode) on an empty page
Select the "Network" tab.
Select WS (WebSockets)
Open your web slack client
Copy the 'token' parameter from the WebSocket connection URL. Picture

Instructions for firefox

In your browser, open the Slack web client
Press F12 to open the developer tools
Refresh the page (F5)
Select the 'Network' tab
Select the 'WS' tab
Copy the 'token' parameter from the WebSocket connection URL.

Get a slack token from https://api.slack.com/docs/oauth-test-tokens

Using Token

Place the token inside '~/.localslackirc'

Using localslackirc

Start localslackirc by running python3 irc.py - you should see a connection message similar to the this:

{'ok': True, 'url': 'wss://cerberus-xxxx.lb.slack-msgs.com/websocket/jhvbT8578765JHBfrewgsdy7', 'team': {'id': 'ZZZ789012', 'name': 'Some Team', 'domain': 'someteam'}, 'self': {'id': 'XXX123456', 'name': 'your name'}}

Now point your irc client to localslackirc (127.0.0.1:9007)
- login to localslackirc using your Slack username
- after your connected, list the channels in your irc client and select the ones you want to join.

Instructions for irssi

If you need to refresh your memory about connecting in general, this is a good guide: https://pthree.org/2010/02/02/irssis-channel-network-server-and-connect-what-it-means/

Here's a list of irssi commands to set up a network and a localhost server:

/network add -user <you> -realname "<your name>" -nick <your nick> <slackname>
/server add -auto -port 9007 -network <slackname> localhost
/save

Then, start localslackirc in your terminal if you haven't already. (Just type python3 irc.py).

After localslackirc is running, and you have seen the connection message seen above, you can just connect to the localhost IRC network in irssi. Like this:

/connect <slackname>

And you should see the following message in your irssi:

22:15:35 [<slackname>] -!- Irssi: Looking up localhost
22:15:35 [<slackname>] -!- Irssi: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 9007
22:15:35 [<slackname>] -!- Irssi: Connection to localhost established
22:15:36 [<slackname>] -!- Hi, welcome to IRC
22:15:36 [<slackname>] -!- Your host is serenity, running version miniircd-1.2.1
22:15:36 [<slackname>] -!- This server was created sometime
22:15:36 [<slackname>] -!- serenity miniircd-1.2.1 o o
22:15:36 [<slackname>] -!- There are 1 users and 0 services on 1 server
...

Requirements

At least Python 3.6
The modules indicated in requirements.txt

Using a docker container to run localslackirc

Inside docker directory there is a dockerfile to generate a container that runs localslackirc. In order to use it follow the instructions:

# docker build -t localslackirc -f docker/Dockerfile .

If everything went fine you should have a new container running localslackirc.

To start your new container:

docker run -d -p 9007:9007 --name=mylocalslackirc -e 'SLACKTOKEN=MYSLACKTOKEN' localslackirc

IRC Channel

#localslackirc on oftc

AitorATuin/localslackirc