slack-messenger 0.1.2

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 the second item as a string of text indicating if the message was 
# successfully sent or failed along with the message content and error message in the event of failure.
message_success, response_msg = sm.send_slack_msg(message=message)
print(f"SUCCESS: {message_success}  RESPONSE MSG: {response_msg}")

# If you wish to include a slack formatted date and timestamp in your message you can call the below
# method to return the slack date and include it in your message body
slack_date = sm.get_slack_formatted_date_num_time_secs()

Installing slack-messenger

Requests is available on PyPI:

$ python -m pip install slack-messenger