go.alexhamlin.co/slackbridge (go): Command slackbridge connects Slack channels to system I/O streams using Slack's real-time messaging API.  Three modes of execution are supported:  The first runs a child process and connects its standard streams to a Slack channel. Within the child process, the text of individual messages in the channel is received on stdin. Text emitted on stdout and stderr is sent back to the channel as individual messages.  The second is similar to the first, but automatically starts a new child process for each Slack channel from which a message is received.  The third connects to Slack and streams message text to stdout. Input is ignored.  During its operation, slackbridge needs to convert Slack messages to and from plain text.  When reading, individual messages are delimited by newlines. Multi-line messages are equivalent to multiple single-line messages in succession. This is not configurable.  When writing, lines of output written within a 0.1 second interval are batched into a single Slack message. This is not configurable through the slackbridge CLI (though the underlying slackio package allows customization of this "batching" scheme).  Users, reactions, threads, and other Slack features are not represented in any way. Only the text in the main body of the channel is available. Received messages are formatted per Slack's "Basic message formatting" as described at https://api.slack.com/docs/message-formatting. Sent messages should be formatted in this manner as well. slackbridge does not handle this automatically.  Run "slackbridge help" to view full usage information. Before using slackbridge, the SLACK_TOKEN environment variable must be set to a valid Slack API token.  slackbridge is designed for long-running programs. Extremely short programs (e.g. a single echo statement in exec mode) are not guaranteed to work as expected, and issues encountered with slackbridge while running such programs will not be considered bugs. Excessive runs of short programs with slackbridge will likely trigger Slack's rate limiting.
Keywords: golang|slack