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Post a message to a Slack channel via bash 2019
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# | |
# Post a message to a Slack channel via bash | |
# | |
# source: https://gist.github.com/dopiaza/6449505#gistcomment-2915161 | |
# | |
# Usage: slackpost -w <webhook_url> -c <channel> -u <username> -m <message> [-a <alert_type>] | |
# Usage: echo <message> | slackpost -w <webhook_url> -c <channel> -u <username> [-a <alert_type>] | |
# | |
# exit immediately if a command exits with a non-zero status | |
set -e | |
# error if variable referenced before being set | |
set -u | |
# produce failure return code if any command fails in pipe | |
set -o pipefail | |
# accepted values: good, warning, danger | |
alert_type="" | |
channel="" | |
message="" | |
username="" | |
webhook_url="" | |
# colon after var means it has a value rather than it being a bool flag | |
while getopts 'a:c:m:u:w:' OPTION; do | |
case "$OPTION" in | |
a) | |
alert_type="$OPTARG" | |
;; | |
c) | |
channel="$OPTARG" | |
;; | |
m) | |
message="$OPTARG" | |
;; | |
u) | |
username="$OPTARG" | |
;; | |
w) | |
webhook_url="$OPTARG" | |
;; | |
?) | |
echo "script usage: $(basename $0) {-c channel} {-m message} {-u username} {-w webhook} [-a alert_type]" >&2 | |
exit 1 | |
;; | |
esac | |
done | |
shift "$(($OPTIND -1))" | |
# exit if channel not provided | |
if [[ -z "$channel" ]] | |
then | |
echo "No channel specified" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
# read piped data as message if message argument is not provided | |
if [[ -z "$message" ]] | |
then | |
message=$* | |
while IFS= read -r line; do | |
message="$message$line\n" | |
done | |
fi | |
# exit if username not provided | |
if [[ -z "$username" ]] | |
then | |
echo "No username specified" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
# exit if webhook not provided | |
if [[ -z "$webhook_url" ]] | |
then | |
echo "No webhook_url specified" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
# escape message text | |
escapedText=$(echo $message | sed 's/"/\"/g' | sed "s/'/\'/g") | |
# create JSON payload | |
json="{\"channel\": \"$channel\", \"username\":\"$username\", \"icon_emoji\":\"ghost\", \"attachments\":[{\"color\":\"$alert_type\" , \"text\": \"$escapedText\"}]}" | |
# fire off slack message post | |
curl -s -d "payload=$json" "$webhook_url" |
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