nathandines/slack-channelwatcher repository overview

⁠slack-channelwatcher

⁠About

This is a simple Go application which will actively monitor your Slack channels, and send you a notification in the event that a new channel is created.

It's currently written in such a way that it would use your user API token in Slack to monitor the channels which are available to you, and notify you when a new one is created/un-archived.

⁠Configuration

Configuration is achieved through environment variables, there are a few items which are configurable:

• SLACK_AUTH_TOKEN - Your Slack API authentication token. For more information on creating this, check Slack's documentation⁠. (Required)
• SLACK_AUTO_JOIN_CHANNEL - Specify if this app should automatically join the new channels it finds using the defined credentials
• SLACK_CHANNEL - Destination channel for notifications. It's highly
• SLACK_CHECK_INTERVAL (seconds) - Define the frequency at which the app will poll for channel changes. (Default: 300) recommended to use the channel identifier rather than the channel name, in case of the event that the channel name should change. (Default: @slackbot)

⁠Usage

Install and run on your local host (this assumes the Go bin directory is in your PATH):

go get github.com/nathandines/slack-channelwatcher
SLACK_AUTH_TOKEN='<slack_token_here>' slack-channelwatcher

Run in Docker:

docker run -e 'SLACK_AUTH_TOKEN=<slack_token_here>' nathandines/slack-channelwatcher:latest