Slack CLI sending messages by webhook

Install

Globally:

$ npm install -g slack-send-cli
$ slack-send Test message

Locally:

$ npm install slack-send-cli
$ npx slack-send Test message

CLI usage

slack-send '<Text message>'

Configuration

• Defaults from hook settings

Environment variables:

• SLACK_SEND_CLI_URL
• SLACK_SEND_CLI_CHANNEL
• SLACK_SEND_CLI_EMOJI
• SLACK_SEND_CLI_PICTURE
• SLACK_SEND_CLI_USERNAME

Options:

• -w --webhook <url> — Slack webhook URL
• -c --channel <name> — Channel or user name, e.g. some_channel, #channel, @username
• -e --emoji <name> — Emoji name for userpic, e.g. :confused:, :confused:
• -p --picture <url> — Userpic URL
• -n --username <username> — Username
• -s --status <username> — Message status, e.g. error, fail, success, warning, warn, info, #FF0000

Programmatically usage

As class:

const SlackSend = require('slack-send-cli');
 
const slack = new SlackSend({
  webhook: 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/...'
  channel: 'general'
  emoji: 'confused'
  picture: 'https://cdn...'
  username: 'Alert Bot'
});
 
slack.send('Hello world!', 'success', (err) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err);
    return;
  }
}).then( () => {
  console.log('ok')
}, err => {
  console.error(err);
});
 

Or as function:

const slack = require('slack-send-cli');
 
slack.send({
  webhook: 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/...'
  channel: 'general'
  emoji: 'confused'
  picture: 'https://cdn...'
  username: 'Alert Bot'
}, 'Hello world!', 'success', (err) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err);
    return;
  }
}).then( () => {
  console.log('ok')
}, err => {
  console.error(err);
});

Class

• constructor(params)

  • [Object] params

    • [String] webhook
    • [String] channel
    • [String] emoji
    • [String] picture
    • [String] username

  • returns [class SlackSend]

• send(message, [status], [callback])

  • [String] message
  • [String] status (optional)
  • [Function] status (optional)
  • returns Promise

Function

• send(params, message, [status], [callback])
  • [Object] params
    • [String] webhook
    • [String] channel
    • [String] emoji
    • [String] picture
    • [String] username
  • [String] message
  • [String] status (optional)
  • [Function] status (optional)
  • returns Promise