Python-Slack Integration

This step by step guide will show you how to integrate slack with Python. 

Integrating Slack with Python

• Add an incoming webhook to the channel you want to receive messages.
• In your Ubuntu server create a python file (name.py)
• This is the code you will place in the file:

import sys def send_message_to_slack(text):
    from urllib import request, parse
    import json
    post = {"text": "{0}".format(text)}
      try:
        json_data = json.dumps(post)
        req = request.Request("Your Slack URL goes here",
                              data=json_data.encode('ascii'),
                              headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
        resp = request.urlopen(req)
    except Exception as em:
        print("EXCEPTION: " + str(em)) if len(sys.argv) < 1:
    print("you did not give any argumentsn")
 else:
 send_message_to_slack(sys.argv[1:])

• Now on the command line type “python3 file.py “Hello” and the message “Hello” will be sent to your slack channel

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