Hi,

I'm trying to delete messages with your great script but it saying channel_not_found.

./slack chat delete "1546300800" "#test"

I confirm that the follow command is working perfectly...

./slack chat send "hi" "#test"

Any idea why?

Thanks

Hello, This is a great tool. I found it to be very useful. But, the project appears to have stalled. I see 14 PRs still open as of now. Also, I think the tool is currently using a deprecated way of sending messages.

Is this project still active or is there another fork/copy that is actively maintained?

We're trying to set up slack-cli as a status updater for all members on our remote team.
For this, we need to pass everyone's token to the CLI, preferably via argument.

What we would like to do:

• Set up a crontab manager like Cronkeep on our team server
• Everyone puts her work hours in the crontab
• We save everyone's token in .env, like SLACK_TOKEN_EMAILALIAS
• The command for the auto status update would for example be slack status edit --text="Pomodoro" --emoji=":tomato:" --token="SLACK_TOKEN_TEST"

If there is any chance for this to be implemented, we would work on a PR.
Happy for direction where in the script to add the part (At the beginning where you check for the token? Or rather at the command level?)

Would be nice to have a .slack file in my home dir.

On our production boxes we could then have slack automatically configured easily by automation and easily send messages.

We could use .bashrc but that's kind of hacky IMO

To reproduce, attempt to send a message such as:

echo 'hello "world"...' | slack chat send --channel test --pretext "a test message"

You will receive an error:

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": "no_text"
}

I believe this is due to the way the JSON body is built in https://github.com/rockymadden/slack-cli/blob/master/src/slack#L224 where quote marks aren't escaped.

Hi,

In our Bamboo environment, we are seeing slack ci hang while trying to read from /dev/stdin. I was able to work around this by piping a space into the slack cli command, but was wondering if there is a better solution.

Here are some logs:

There seems to be no easy way to script clearing your status from the command line without requiring some user interaction

The following command goes into interactive mode

slack status edit --text '' --emoji ''

The best workaround I have so far is pretty unintuitive and brittle:

printf "\n\n" | slack status edit

Hi, I tried sending a private message but I keep getting a 'channel_not_found' error using the following command:

slack chat send 'Hello world!' @Adel

Note: I can successfully send messages to channel, however i need to send private messages now

Complete error message:
jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot iterate over null (null)
jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot iterate over null (null)
{ "ok": false, "error": "channel_not_found" }

I am able to initialize just fine, but I always get Sending: fail when it runs in a bash shell. The same command works fine from the command line, just not from a bash shell. The script I am kicking off is below, including the full output I get...

SCRIPT
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH;
slack init --channel='sickbeard-results' --token=
slack send 'Starting Sickbeard'

OUTPUT
Initializing: done
Sending: fail

I very much want a way to keep an important Slack channel open without running a browser or the desktop client. I'm thinking you could invoke something like slack live "#channel" and the CLI would take over the terminal, letting you type new messages in while loading messages at some interval. This may be achievable with standard bash, or could require use of something like ncurses.

I'd be totally excited to help on something like this, if there's interest.

I would like to know if there is any autocomplete in this project or if it would be in development

$ slack-cli chat <tab><tab>
send update delete

Official API of slack https://api.slack.com/methods lacks of the chat.command API call which is documented here:
https://github.com/ErikKalkoken/slackApiDoc/blob/master/chat.command.md

Can you please implement this API call?

Hi,

is there any possibility to get a behavior similar to this other slack CLI-tool (https://www.npmjs.com/package/slack-cli), where a message can be sent with a different username and even with a different user-icon?
I think this would be a nice addition, so if I wanted to have a script post something to my slack channel, it would be easier to spot for the other users...
See also this youtube-video for clarification:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWljTSHRmmU&t=38s

Thank you for your help!

within the native client to clear status you can just "/status "

i've tried a bunch of variations with the cli but it seems i need to set a specific emoji?

also, i was trying to use the cli to delete messages but am not sure how to get the timestamp (since it includes finer detail info than what is displayed on the client)

thanks Rocky!

When you pipe contents to slack cli it will do the proper escaping for newlines yet does not for ".

For now I'm using a sed script to remove it but I'm probably missing other characters?

#try.txt has newlines and some " (double quotes)
 cat try.txt | sed 's/"/\\"/g' | slack chat send --channel '#engineering' --pretext 'Blah:'

I saw #62 where someone explained you have to do the escaping yourself but if that is the case how come newline is handled but double quote is not? Its really confusing because I'm not sure what chars are handled and what isn't.

It would be great if a user (me) could send threaded messages

In its simplest form, i believe that it would simply be a case of allowing the user (me) to pass a 'thread_ts' value when posting a message, which would make the message a child of the first message in the thread (assuming that I passed the correct ts) and the thread_broadcast boolean, which (for my use case I would set to true).

I have a slack channel that receives updates from out CI system (using slack-cli). Builds run a series of tests, but as up to 30 builds can be running at once, it would be awesome if I could thread them...

Hi, sorry to misuse an issue for a question but didn't see another way in the README.

Is it correct that I can't use this to read messages from a channel? Reading other people's responses would only be possible via private message chats and im.list?

Is it possible to set the channel topic? I can't find it if it is.
I tried
slack chat send "/topic test topic"
but that sends the literal text.

when trying to install this package. I get a brew error
Error: Invalid tap name 'rockymadden/rockymadden/slack-cli'

I just looked at the source you're putting the configuration file in the installation dir of the script.

Is this a bug?

My .slack shouldn't be in /usr/bin...

if anything it should be in /etc/ for system wide installs.

When I try to run slack init with my slack bot token I get the following output:
/usr/local/bin/slack: line 522: /usr/local/etc/slack-cli/.slack: No such file or directory { "ok": false, "error": "not_writable" }

The binary name 'slack' clobbers with the GUI slack application.
I can customize the via Makefile the bindir, but not the bin name.
Can this be customized?

Description

Apologies if I am missing the obvious, but I am wondering if there is a way to obtain the number of unread messages in a given channel.

Many thanks

Does setting/changing my own presence/status require me to use a Legacy token or can it be done using one of the other auth methods?

Is it possible to upload files not as ZIPs? This seems to be the default behavior, and I can't seem to figure out how to turn it off.

Hi all, I've been using slack-cli for many years now, and I love it.

One organization I've worked with though, only wants to deal with Microsoft Teams. Does anybody know of an equivalent of slack-cli for MS Teams? Thx.

our company uses 2FA to get to slack so slack token is insufficient to authenticate. if the "init" function had some way to go through 2FA that would be great. TIA.

Hey, I wanted to send some messages to Slack programmatically and this script seems to do the job nicely. Thanks!

I didn't see how to store the Slack API token securely, though, instead of just leaving it in plaintext on disk. I generally use pass to do this job.

So, in my dotfiles I added support for a SLACK_CLI_TOKEN_CMD environment variable. It just contains a command that will print the token to standard output.

Any interest in a PR to support password managers? If yes, does the above seem like a reasonable basis for one?

Like this:

slack presence get
slack status get

I wish I had time to contribute myself but am too busy with work/life currently.

Is it possible to send messages only containing text using the text attribute of the slack api rather than defaulting to using attachments? I would like to use this to interact with a slack bot but the slack bot only understands simple messages.

It'd be really useful to be able to set an expire time when updating a status.

Edit status via arguments:
slack status edit lunch :hamburger: 60

Edit status via options:
slack status edit --text lunch --emoji :hamburger: --expire 60

Edit status via short form options:
slack status edit --tx lunch -em :hamburger: -ex 60

It appears this could be easily done by adding status_expiration.

I would implement myself and make a pull request but my bash skills are not so hot.

Hello,

I'm wondering if i can use the slash command '/remind' also with this CLI? (I'd like to run a script that reminds me for a bunch of stuff so I dont need to do this manually everytime)

Cheers,
Sidney

https://api.slack.com/methods/files.upload

It doesn't seem possible to send strings which include quotes.

To reproduce:

$ echo \"this is a string with quotes which can\'t be sent\"
"this is a string with quotes which can't be sent"


$ echo \"this is a string with quotes which can\'t be sent\" | ./slack chat send --channel '#testchannel'
{
  "ok": false,
  "error": "no_text"
}


$ echo this is a string without quotes which can be sent | ./slack chat send --channel '#testchannel'
{
  "ok": true,
  "channel": "CASLS2A87",
  "ts": "1526569175.000785",
  "message": {
    "type": "message",
    "user": "U04PC8VG1",
    "text": "",
    "bot_id": "BARC5MV6Y",
    "attachments": [
      {
        "fallback": "```this is a string without quotes which can be sent```",
        "pretext": "```this is a string without quotes which can be sent```",
        "id": 1,
        "mrkdwn_in": [
          "pretext"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "ts": "1526569175.000785"
  }
}

I was looking at the Slack docs, and they mention using <@UserName> to mention a user and notify them as part of the API, but I can't seem to get it to work? Any thoughts?

I was just trying to script together a simple status updater for pomodoros and noticed what appears to be a bug in the argument parsing:

slack status edit --text "Pomodoro until DATE" --emoji :tomato:

Under the hood it appears to run this invalid CURL command

curl -s -X POST https://slack.com/api/users.profile.set --data-urlencode 'profile={"status_text":"Pomodoro' until 'DATE", "status_emoji":":tomato:"}' --data-urlencode token=<redacted>

and you get back this from the Slack API:

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": "invalid_profile"
}

Please allow send message as slack app bot account.
We need as_user=false when use bot token.

How do we set message width with slack-cli?

Please see this screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/BXidcGB.png

The first message was sent via slack-cli.

The second message was sent via a GUI Slack client.

I've tried to play with --timestamp argument, but no luck.
And thank you for your tool!:)

I'm trying to pipe a url to a channel and it always ends up formatted with backticks.

For example:

echo "http://github.com" | slack chat send -ch @mark 

I receive the message but it looks like this:

Is there a way to format piped output?