Farfetch

A tiny piece software to send files and messages using slack API

Image from: http://pixelartmaker.com/art/f740b9b40b4942d

Overview

• Library to send message and upload file to Slack
• You can compile and use as binary
• You can also import and use it in your code

Setup

This library needs three variables to work:

• A slack-web hook (hook)
• A slack token (token)
• You also need to choose a slack channel (channel id)

How to get the hook?

• https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks

How to get the token?

• https://api.slack.com/authentication/token-types

How to get the channel id?

• https://www.wikihow.com/Find-a-Channel-ID-on-Slack-on-PC-or-Mac

Usage

You can use this project in two distinct ways.

as a binary

Append your env with the following variable: SLACK_HOOK your web-hook, SLACK_TOKEN your token and SLACK_CH your channel id.

Then build the binary

go build cmd/main.go

Make the generated farfetch binary file executable

chmod +x ./farfetch

Then you can use the binary:

./farfetch send hello

Will send hello using your slack-bot to your designated slack channel.

./farfetch upload ~/pictures/photo.png

Will upload the file photo.png to your designated slack channel...

as a package

You can use this project as a package in your golang project.

package main

import (
	"os"
	"github.com/winterhart/farfetch"
)

func main() {
	webHook := os.Getenv(`SLACK_HOOK`)
	slack := farfetch.NewFarfetchImpl(webHook, "", "")
	slack.SendMessage("This message is from another project using Farfetch! ")

}