slacker-cli
Send messages to Slack from command line.
Usage
date | slacker -c slack_channel -t slack_token
The Slack token can be called from an enviroment variable, called SLACK_TOKEN
.
You can set SLACK_TOKEN
in your ~/.bashrc
# ~/.bashrc
export SLACK_TOKEN="slack_token_string"
date | slacker -c slack_channel
Send message to user:
date | slacker -u user_name
Upload file to channel:
date | slacker -c slack_channel -f image.png
Add sender name and emoji avatar:
date | slacker -n SlackerBot -i :dancer:
Installation
pip install slacker-cli
Tokens
You can either generate test tokens or create a bot user and use its token.