wakeywakey

Continuously mark your Slack presence as active - never appear away!

Installation

pip install wakeywakey

or

pip install git+https://github.com/angstwad/wakeywakey.git

Use

Generate Slack Token

The easiest solution is to generate a test token in the Slack API or follow the docs http://api.slack.com/web.

Running App

By default, wakeywakey runs forever and doesn't generate any output unless the Slack API returns an error.

$ wakeywakey <your-token-here>

wakeywakey's arguments:

positional arguments:
  token                 Slack OAuth token

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --run-once            Sets user as active and exits.
  -i INTERVAL, --interval INTERVAL
                        Interval (seconds) at which Slack API is contacted.
                        Default: 300

Running Forever on OS X

As I'm an OS X user, I figured I'd make this a bit easier for you to run at login like I do.

Below is an example launchd job file. Copy this to a new file and:

• replace with your client OAuth test key
• update path to wakeywakey to actual path after install (you can find this by running which wakeywakey in the terminal)

My example plist runs with an interval of 60 seconds.

Install this file to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.angstwad.wakeywakey.plist. You'll need to log out and log back in (I think) in order for this to take effect or will need to be manually loaded with launchctl.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.angstwad.wakeywakey</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/path/to/wakeywakey</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/path/to/wakeywakey</string>
        <string>-i</string>
        <string>60</string>
        <string>your oauth token goes here</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>