Slack Message

Send messages from your terminal directly to the Slack channel. The idea for this was published in mikaelbr/open-source-ideas.

Common use cases for this package are:

get a Slack notification when a CI server finishes its work
get a Slack notification when a deployment is complete
get a Slack notification when any other process exits

Install

$ npm i slack-message -g

Usage

You will need a working token. The easiest way to get a testing one is api.slack.com/web. If you need a live token please follow the instructions about oAuth api.slack.com/docs/oauth.

  $ slack-message

  Usage: slack-message [options] <#channel | @user> <message>

  Options:

  -h, --help           output usage information
  -V, --version        output the version number
  -t, --token <token>  token to use, reads SLACK_TOKEN if provided
  -s, --save-token     saves token for later use

Examples

Sending a message with inline token

$ slack-message -t token-123-321 #factory "I need some pancakes folks"

Sending a message and saving the token for a later use

$ slack-message -t token-123-321 -s #factory "really, I need pancakes"

Sending a direct message to a user

$ slack-message -t token-123-321 -s @chef "awesome pancakes!"

If you have a saved token

$ slack-message #general "send pancakes and hurry"

You can also pass an ENV variable

$ SLACK_TOKEN=token slack-message #random "I'm hungry"

Alternatives

slack - Slack API console for Node and the browser
slack-cli - Slack CLI interface for various API endpoints

License

MIT