Django Slack Integration

This application helps you to integrate your existing Django application with Slack.

It provides you with

• Models - needed to keep information from Slack API
• Decorators - help you to write implementation of your Slack endpoints
• Authorisation backend - allows you to pair your existing user model with your Slack users
• Views - OAuth callbacks for "Add To Slack" and "Login With Slack" actions

Installation

1. Add 'slack_app' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'slack_app',
       ...
   ]
   

2. Include the urls in your project urls.py like this:

   path('slack/', include('slack_app.urls')),
   

3. Run python manage.py migrate to create the slack_app models.

4. Add slack_app.auth_backends.SlackAuthenticationBackend to your AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS

   AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
       'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
       'slack_app.auth_backends.SlackAuthenticationBackend',
   ]
   

5. Update your settings.py

   SLACK_CLIENT_ID=""
   SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET=""
   SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET=""
   
   SLACK_LOGIN_OAUTH_REDIRECT_URL=""
   SLACK_INSTALL_OAUTH_REDIRECT_URL=""
   

6. Add following URLs to your Slack app's Redirect URLs (OAuth & Permissions)

   <your_host>/slack/oauthcallback/
   <your_host>/slack/login/
   

7. (Optional) Put <your_host>/slack/interactivity/ as your Request URL in Interactive Components section

8. (Optional) Configure your Slash commands's Request URL as <your_host>/slack/commands/<command_name>/

Usage

Slack commands

If you want to create a new Slack command with name /example, configure your Request URL as <your_host>/slack/commands/example/ and put the following code into slack.py inside your app's directory.

@slack_command('example', require_linked_account=True)
def scrumie_staging_command(request, slack_user_mapping, slack_workspace):
    print(slack_user_mapping, slack_workspace)
    return JsonResponse({
        "blocks": [
            {
                "type": "section",
                "text": {
                    "type": "mrkdwn",
                    "text": "Hello _world_"
                },
            }
        ],
        "text": "Hello World"
    })

Slack Interactivity

Put the following to your slack.py inside your app's directory.

@slack_interactivity('block_actions')
def process_block_actions(payload):
    print('>>>>', payload)
    return HttpResponse()