pyslack

A command line python base interface to Slack. It uses Slack New App API verion 2.0.

Install

Create an App on slack and enable chat:write, im:write and files:write permissions. Install the app, and save the Bot User Token OAuth Access Token to $HOME/.pyslackrc from the template pyslackrc.sample. And install the python package.

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py build && python setup.py install

or

pip install .

Usage

• Send a text message.

  pyslack text --channel '#random' --text "This is a test message."

• Upload a file.

  pyslack file --channel '#random' --file /path/to/file --title FileTitle --filetype <file type> \
    --initial-comment "This is the comment"