text animation for Slack messages 👯
Download a binary from the Releases Page and put it somewhere on your $PATH.
Mac OS X Homebrew users, you can also just brew install slacknimate.
Generate your Slack user token on this page.
You'll need to either pass it to the program via the --api-token flag or store
it as SLACK_TOKEN environment variable.
If you want the message to come from a bot name/icon instead, see "Bots" section at the bottom of this README.
NAME:
slacknimate - text animation for Slack messages
USAGE:
slacknimate [options]
VERSION:
1.0.0
COMMANDS:
help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command
GLOBAL OPTIONS:
--api-token, -a API token* [$SLACK_TOKEN]
--delay, -d "1" minimum delay between frames
--channel, -c channel/destination* [$SLACK_CHANNEL]
--loop, -l loop content upon reaching end
--preview preview on terminal instead of posting
--help, -h show help
--version, -v print the version
$ slacknimate -c "#general" --loop < examples/emoji.txt
Why spam a chatroom with periodic monitoring messages when you can have realtime status updates so that a message is never out of date?
See for example this example:
$ ./examples/process.sh 5 | slacknimate -c "#devops"
2016/02/23 19:03:14 initial frame G07AJU0SH/1456272194.000086: Processing items: 0/5
2016/02/23 19:03:15 updated frame G07AJU0SH/1456272194.000086: Processing items: 1/5
2016/02/23 19:03:16 updated frame G07AJU0SH/1456272194.000086: Processing items: 2/5
2016/02/23 19:03:17 updated frame G07AJU0SH/1456272194.000086: Processing items: 3/5
2016/02/23 19:03:18 updated frame G07AJU0SH/1456272194.000086: Processing items: 4/5
2016/02/23 19:03:19 updated frame G07AJU0SH/1456272194.000086: Processing items: 5/5
Done!
If you aren't certain about your source, you can preview what the animation
would look like in the terminal via the --preview flag.
$ slacknimate --preview --loop -d 0.25 < examples/sample.txt
In order for Slack message editing to work, the message must be posted
as_user: true, which will show as coming from whomever owns the token. This
is due to how the security model for Slack message editing works.
For bots, you must create a new bot in the team settings and substitute in the auth token for that bot.
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