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A Django app to help integrate Slack

Project description

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()

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