ssend 0.1.1

Send messages to a room/user in slack from the command line

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slacksend
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Send a file or message to a slack chatroom or user.

Configuration
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The slacksend script supports getting its configuration from a central config file, from a per user config file and from the command line. The order of precedence is command lien options > user config > system config.

The user config file is:

```bash
/home/slacker/.slack.yml
```

The system config file is:

```bash
/usr/local/etc/slack.yml
```

```yaml
---

slack:
api_token: xoxb-0000000000-MYSPECIALTOKEN
channel: archer
name: woodhouse
icon_emoji: ':sake:'
```

Usage
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```
usage: ssend [-h] [-c CHANNEL] [-u USER] [-n NAME] [-t API_TOKEN]
[-f FILE] [-a] [-i ICON_EMOJI] [--icon-url ICON_URL]

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c CHANNEL, --channel CHANNEL
Channel to send message to
-u USER, --user USER User to send message to
-n NAME, --name NAME Slack sender name
-t API_TOKEN, --token API_TOKEN
Slack API token
-f FILE, --file FILE File to upload
-a, --as-user Send as the token owner
-i ICON_EMOJI, --icon-emoji ICON_EMOJI
Sender emoji icon
--icon-url ICON_URL Sender icon image from URL
```

Send a message to a channel or user or both.

```bash
echo "Hello world!" | ssend
```
Upload a file to a channel


```bash
ssend -f carol.jpg
```

Override the bot name on the command line.

```bash
ssend -n Pam
```



Installation
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```bash
pip install ssend
```

Origin
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This code is derived from [slacker-cli](https://github.com/juanpabloaj/slacker-cli) however you can statically configure all options with a config file.