Slack Message Action

Use this action to send slack notification from github actions.
This action also let you extract the inner jobs link for each workflow

This action includes compilation support, tests, a validation workflow, publishing, and versioning guidance.

Install

Node >= v9

Install the dependencies

$ npm install

Build the typescript and package it for distribution

$ npm run build

Run the tests ✔️

$ npm test

Run it to send slack message

This is most basic example of how to run the action.

- name: Notify slack
  uses: 'wixplosives/action-slack-message@master'
  with:
    text: 'My text is so awesome'
    channel: 'testing-yarden-public'
    slack_token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}

Run it to notify about job status

if always() is required because we want to send status update even if action fails.

- name: Notify slack
  if: always()
  uses: 'wixplosives/action-slack-message@master'
  with:
    text: 'My text is so awesome'
    status: ${{job.status}}
    channel: 'testing-yarden-public'
    slack_token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}

Custom job name

When you define a custom job name, like this

notify-custom-name:
  runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
  name: some custom name # <<< CUSTOM JOB NAME DEFINED HERE
  strategy:
    matrix:
      os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]

You need to pass as an argument the custom job name, as the following:

      steps:
          - name: Notify slack
            uses: 'wixplosives/action-slack-message@master'
            ...
            with:
                ...
                custom_job_name: some custom name

output format

passing the following values to "output_format" will modify the output as follows: simple : removes attachment from message

any other values will result in the default formatting

Usage in a private repo:

Add github.token as an environment variable

- name: Notify slack
  uses: 'wixplosives/action-slack-message@master'
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}

Send a file:

Add github.token as an environment variable

- name: Notify slack
  uses: 'wixplosives/action-slack-message@master'
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
  with:
    channel: 'testing-yarden-public'
    slack_token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
    file_name: file.txt