Slkecho

Slkecho is a CLI tool to post message to Slack like echo command.

Installation

Install it yourself as:

gem install slkecho

or run without installation:

gem exec slkecho

Setup

Before using slkecho, you need to configure your Slack API token:

slkecho --configure

This will:

Prompt you to enter your Slack App Client ID and Client Secret
Open a browser for OAuth authorization
Save the access token to ~/.config/slkecho/token.json

Once configured, you can use slkecho without the --token option.

Usage

slkecho -c <channel> -m <mention> message

or message from stdin:

cat message.txt | slkecho -c <channel> -m <mention>

Options

-c, --channel (required)

Slack channel to post message.

See below: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage#arg_channel

-m, --mention-by-email (optional)

Search for the target member by email address and adds a mentions to the message. Mention is only valid for members of the channel to which you are posting.

--username (optional)

Set user name for message.

See below: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage#arg_username

--icon-url (optional)

Set user icon image for message by URL.

See below: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage#arg_icon_url

--icon-emoji (optional)

Set user image for message by emoji.

See below: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage#arg_icon_emoji

--message-as-blocks (optional)

Post message as blocks.

See below: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage#arg_blocks

--token (optional)

Pass a token to authenticate with Slack.

--configure (optional)

Configure Slack API token via OAuth 2.0 authentication. Saves token to ~/.config/slkecho/token.json (or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/slkecho/token.json).

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/okonomi/slkecho.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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