node-slack

node-slack

A node module for sending and receiving messages with Slack via webhooks.

Slack is a messaging platform that is easy to integrate with. This module should be useful for creating various integrations with Slack, such as chat bots!

Install Slack

node-slack is available via npm:

npm install node-slack

Get your custom domain and token from Slack.

Domain is the first part of your .slack.com.

Token is provided on the integration setup page.

var Slack = require('node-slack');
var slack = new Slack(domain,token);

To send a message, call slack.send:

slack.send({
	text: 'Howdy!',
	channel: '#foo',
	username: 'Bot'
});

To respond to a message, pass the information from the webhook into slack.respond, along with a callback function responsible for returnign a response.

From inside an Express.js route, this is as easy as passing in req.body:

app.post('/yesman',function(req,res) {
	
	var reply = slack.respond(req.body,function(hook) {
		
		return {
			text: 'Good point, ' + hook.user_name,
			username: 'Bot'
		};
		
	});
	
	res.json(reply);

});