post a message to a slack channel

slack-message.bat

@echo off

set Count=0
for %%a in (%*) do set /a Count+=1
if %count% NEQ 2 goto usage

SET message=%1
SET channel=%2

SET token=mySecretToken
SET url=https://ourSlackAccount.slack.com/services/hooks/incoming-webhook?token=%token%
SET data=payload={"channel": "%channel%","text":%message%,"username": "focus-bot"}

REM escape all the double quotes
SET data=%data:"=\"%

REM wrap in double quotes
SET data="%data%"

c:
cd %~dp0
..\curl\curl -k -X POST --data-urlencode %data% %url% 

goto done

:usage
echo.
echo Invalid usage
echo Usage: slack-message.bat  message channel(include the leading #)
echo.

:done