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A chat bot for Slack (https://slack.com).
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Is it possible for slackbot to listen to external events and report it back to user? #114

Closed roperi closed 7 years ago

roperi commented 7 years ago

For instance, say slackbot listens to some external API live weather report. Then bot receives from the API a severe thunderstorm warning in an area that affects team. Could it be possible for the bot to send a warning to user or channel? Thanks in advance!

rob-gonz commented 7 years ago

+1 I am looking for this functionality as well. I have many repositories and I would like to send a public update for every post_update hook call.

Edit: This Issue #114 may be a duplicate of Issue #92, #54, #89; in a way. From my understanding of the threads none have been pulled and all are waiting to be pulled. Looks like #92 is the best candidate.

roperi commented 7 years ago

@THEANONYMOU5

Unless I'm wrong it looks like the slackclient RTM doesn't support this. As a workaround I'm using Incoming Webhooks which let me send direct messages triggered by my own events directly to channels or usernames. Thing is messages are send via the official Slack's slackbot (not via our own slackbots).

roperi commented 7 years ago

So I'm closing this because according to what I have read Incoming Webhooks is a separate custom integration.

roperi commented 7 years ago

@THEANONYMOU5

Oh. I didn't read your EDIT. I'll test how #92 works.