Slack user keepalive

com.sean.python.slacktive.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd >
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.sean.python.slacktive</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Users/sean/src/slacktive/slacktive.py</string>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
  </dict>
</plist>

SLACKTIVE.md

1. Put slacktive.py somewhere on your system, then change the path in slacktive.plist
2. Put com.sean.python.slacktive.plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
3. Add your token to com.sean.python.slacktive.plist (see file comments)
4. launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sean.python.slactive.plist

slacktive.py

import os
import time
from requests import post

while True:
    # Replace x's with your user token.
    # Token available from https://api.slack.com/docs/oauth-test-tokens
    r = post("https://slack.com/api/users.setActive", data = {'token': 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'})
    if r.status_code is not 200:
        break
    time.sleep(25*60)