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Send new eventbrite orders to a Slack channel (Django view function)
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
import requests, json
# Get an OAuth token from https://www.eventbrite.com/myaccount/apps/
# Create a new app, then expand the expandy-thingy and copy out the
# 'Your personal OAuth token' value.
EVENTBRITE_OAUTH_TOKEN = '...'
# Should look something like https://yoursite.slack.com/services/hooks/incoming-webhook?token=xxx...xxx
SLACK_URL = 'https://...'
SLACK_CHANNEL = '#webhooks_demo'
SLACK_USERNAME = 'Eventbrite'
SLACK_ICON_URL = 'https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2434252/2014/eventbrite_e_icon_ff8000_gradient.png'
def send_to_slack(order_info):
requests.post(SLACK_URL, {
'payload': json.dumps({
'channel': SLACK_CHANNEL,
'username': SLACK_USERNAME,
'icon_url': SLACK_ICON_URL,
'text': message_from_order_details(order_info, include_event=True)
})
})
def message_from_order_details(order_info, include_event=False):
message = '%s ordered %d ticket%s' % (
order_info['email'],
len(order_info['attendees']),
's' if len(order_info['attendees']) > 1 else ''
)
if include_event:
message += ' for <%(event_url)s|%(event_title)s>' % {
'event_url': order_info['event']['url'],
'event_title': order_info['event']['name']['text'],
}
return message
@csrf_exempt
def webhook_receive(request):
message = json.loads(request.body)
api_url = message['api_url']
api_url = '%s?token=%s&expand=event,event.ticket_classes,attendees' % (api_url, EVENTBRITE_OAUTH_TOKEN)
order_info = requests.get(api_url).json()
send_to_slack(order_info)
return HttpResponse('Got order: %s' % repr(order_info))
@lammertw
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Nice work. I made a NodeJS version based on your code at https://github.com/lammertw/eventbrite-to-slack

@jlkirbee
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How do you use this script? Could I get a step by step on how to set this up?

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