Slacker is a tool designed to make it easier to do admin tasks and general utility for several workspaces (teams). It supports a REPL for inputting and evaluating commands, along with a CLI for running a single command.
The first invocation of Slacker requires to setup a workspace using the --init argument:
% ./slacker.py --init
Input workspace token: ****************************************************************************
Added new workspace 'myworkspace' to config and made it active.
You can now run slacker normally.
myworkspace>
Slacker is ready for use afterwards with "myworkspace" as the active workspace. Note that it is recommended to employ a user token, not a bot token!
Tokens can be created here. Never share these tokens!
Displaying available commands:
api.test Checks that the Slack API is online.
auth.test Checks authentication and describes user identity.
channels.list Displays info about channels on Slack.
chat.memessage Post a me message to a channel on Slack.
chat.postephemeral Post ephemeral message to a channel on Slack that is only visible to assigned user.
chat.postmessage Post message to a channel on Slack.
config Shows current config state.
emoji.list Lists custom emojis in workspace
exit Exits Slacker.
files.delete Delete files uploaded to and stored on Slack.
files.list Displays info about files on Slack.
help Displays general help.
log Displays current log level.
users.list Displays info about users on Slack.
workspace Displays predefined workspaces and which one is active.
usage: slacker.py [options] [-- command [args..]]
Useful Slack utilities and REPL.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
-v, --verbose Sets the log level to DEBUG for this session.
-q, --quiet Disable stdout logging
--init Interactively initialize config and add workspace and API
token.
--check Checks that all commands are valid.
--no-tests Do not do API and auth tests at startup.
Most commands support -h|--help to see how they work. By passing '--', it
signals that Slacker arguments end and a single command and arguments begin.
Slacker will exit after running that command.
Slacker is written in Python 3 and the required modules to be installed can be found in requirements.txt.
To setup a virtual development environment that doesn't pollute the general system it is expected that virtualenv for Python 3+ is installed.
Run make setup to install required modules to ".venv" in the root of the repository, and issue source .venv/bin/activate to activate the environment. From here, the python, python3, pip etc. will map to ".venv" and the modules installed into it.
A Dockerfile is provided to quickly get up an running with Slacker. To build the Docker image it is recommended to use the docker target in the Makefile make docker, which creates image slacker:local. Start the slacker container by executing docker_run.sh. By default the script will drop you into the REPL, but slacker commands can be given directly to the script.
% ./docker_run.sh -- files.list -c 10
Note: slacker writes a configuration file to disk (
~/.slacker). In order to keep the configuration file between subsequent runs the local volume mount in the container is required.
See CONTRIBUTING.md.