console.slack()

Overview

A friend mentioned something about this, and I thought it'd be a cool idea. I've written a few slack-bots in bash to do various things, like watch a folder and post the contents of new files (great for a headless server), or let me know when a deploy was complete. However, I now spend a lot of time in node.js, so a bot to do this without setting it up in bash would be super handy.

It's a pretty basic module. Not a great deal of functionality, but it should be customisable (with options) enough to do almost anything you require. If not, it's on github.

Please submit any issues here.

Setup

    var slack = require('console-slack');
    slack.options = options; // see below, or, set per-option.

Usage

There's not a lot to this one. This is it.

console.slack(message[, channel[, onSuccess]]);

• message is the content to be posted to Slack.
• channel is the Slack channel to be posted to. See below for defaults/options.
• onSuccess is a function to be called once Slack has been successfully posted to.
  • It provides two parameters, the response from Slack, and the request status.

Options

The options shown below are the defaults (other than webhook). Webhook is the only required option, and can be set with slack.webhook if you don't want to pass in any other options.

slack.options = {
    webhook : "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    username: "console.slack.bot", // the username you want to log with,
    emoji : ":nerd_face:", // set an emoji to be the bots profile picture,
    channel : "#general", 
}

There are a couple of options that have extended functionality.

• slack.webhook can be set to 'test' to log to the console during development. If it's not set at all, calls to console.slack will fail. They have nowhere to go.

• slack.channel can be set to true to send to the webhook's default channel. The channel can be set per-message, as well.

Example

var slack = require('console-slack');

slack.options = {
    webhook  : 'test', // don't want to make a post to slack
    emoji    : ':100:',
    username : 'cool-slack-bot'
}

console.slack('Hello, World!');
console.slack('Hello, Channel!', '#custom-channel');
console.slack('Hello, function!', '', function(resp, status){
    console.log('Response was: ' + resp);
    console.log('Status was: ' + status);
});