slackbot
A simple python wrapper for the Slack api
Requirements
Installation
pip install simple-slackbot
Usage
Generate a slack api token
First you need to get the slack api token for your bot. You can create a bot on the slack website and manage permissions.
Instantiate a SlackBot
from slackbot import SlackBot
slackbot = SlackBot()
By default, the SlackBot retrieved the slack token from environment variable SLACK_API_TOKEN.
You can overwrite the default behaviour by instantiating with the token argument.
If running it in a Jupyter notebook, instantiate with run_async=True.
Send a message
You can send messages to any channel (using the channel name or id), or any user (just set channel=@<username>)
slackbot.send_message(channel='#general', message='Hello!')
Send a file
You can also send files over slack, to any channel or user.
slackbot.send_file(channel='#general', file='<filepath>', message='Check out this file!')
More using the slack api directly
You can access methods from the raw slack client to use them directly.
slackbot.client.chat_postMessage(...)
