Custom slash command to use isitup.org to check if a site is up from within Slack
- A custom slash command on a Slack team
- A web server running something like Apache with mod_wsgi, with Python 2.7 installed
- Place this script on a server with Python 2.7 installed.
- Set up a new custom slash command on your Slack team: http://my.slack.com/services/new/slash-commands
- Under "Choose a command", enter whatever you want for the command. /isitup is easy to remember.
- Under "URL", enter the URL for the script on your server.
- Leave "Method" set to "Post".
- Decide whether you want this command to show in the autocomplete list for slash commands.
- If you do, enter a short description and usage hint.
Derived from David McCreath's PHP version here: https://github.com/mccreath/isitup-for-slack