slack-cli

A very simple command line interface (CLI) for Slack.

Send a message

slackcli -t slack_token -g group_name -m "Hello World!"

Or if the environment variable SLACK_TOKEN is set, you can simply use,

slackcli -g group_name -m "Hello World!"

Or use -h instead, if you want to post to a channel

slackcli -h channel_name -m "Hello World!"

Send a file

slackcli -t slack_token -g group_name -f filename -m "Download this file"

Send from standard input

# slackcli -t slack_token -g group_name -c
Hello World!

Install

With npm do:

npm install -g slack-cli

Usage

# slackcli --help
USAGE: node <SOMEWHERE>\npm\node_modules\slack-cli\bin\cmd.js [OPTION1] [OPTION2]... arg1 arg2...
The following options are supported:
  -m, --message <ARG1>  Specify the text of the message to send
  -g, --group <ARG1>    Specify the group name
  -h, --channel <ARG1>  Specify the channel name
  -f, --file <ARG1>     Specify the name of the file to send
  -t, --token <ARG1>    Specify the Slack API token
  -v, --verbose         Set to verbose mode
  -c, --console         Use console to input message
  -w, --waitText <ARG1>         Specify the text message to wait.  Default timeout is 30 seconds.
  -s, --timeout <ARG1>          Specify the seconds to timeout when using --waitText.

Advanced Mode

To reuse the Slack token, you can set the token as the environment variable SLACK_TOKEN like this.

SET SLACK_TOKEN=xoxo-12345678-12345678-12345678-123abc