slack-messenger 0.1.1

Slack Messanger Client using Incoming Webhooks

slack-messenger

Description

The slack-messenger is a simple package that helps send Slack Messages via Incoming Webhook URLs. For more information on how to create a Slack App, and how to generate an incoming webhook URL please read the official Slack documentation on sending messages using Incoming Webhooks.

How to use slack-messenger

from slack-messenger import SlackMessenger

# Create the SlackMessenger object with your Incoming Webhook URL
url = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/<rest-of-the-webhook>"
sm = SlackMessenger(slackbot_webhook_url=url)

# Create your message, you can use the usual formatting and layout blocks available from Slack
message = "Hello Slack :alert-emoji:, this is sent from `slack messenger`"

# The 'send_slack_msg' method will return a tuple with the first item boolean to represent if sending
# the message was successful and a second value including a string of text of 
message_success, response_msg = sm.send_slack_msg(message=message)
print(f"SUCCESS: {message_success}  RESPONSE MSG: {response_msg}")

Installing slack-messenger

Requests is available on PyPI:

$ python -m pip install slack-messenger