Slack Automated Messaging with Webhooks using Python

Hello Every one I hope all are fine and good, today we are going to see about automated messaging in Slack application using web hooks with python programming language. Let's dive !

Slack Webhooks

You might have seen a webhook choice in your slack settings and puzzled if this can be one thing you ought to use. Victimisation webhooks one, will send machine-controlled messages (JSON payload) from one app to different. This could be triggered in response to specific events. Making an Incoming Webhook provides you a novel universal resource locator to that you send a JSON payload with the message text and a few choices.

Getting started with webhooks

Step 1: Create a Slack workspace by clicking here

Step 2: Go to Browse Slack and click Apps + icon and search for incoming webhook, click on Add

incoming webhook

Step 3: From the App directory page, add incoming webhooks to slack

Step 4: After adding webhooks it will redirect to channel configuration page at that select your channel then click add channel.

Step 5: Don't forgot to copy the webhook URL

Step 6: After that, our Slack channel look like this,

Step 7: Then create a new python file called app.py, you can name it with your favourable file name with .py extension

Step 8:

Prerequisites: Install request module

Pip install request

import json
import sys
import random
import requests
if __name__ == ‘__main__’:
     url = “<Webhook URL>”
     message = (“A Sample message by bot”)
     title = (f”New Incoming Message :zap:”)
     slack_data = {
    “username”: “AshBot”,
    “icon_emoji”: “:satellite:”,
    “channel” : “general”,
    “attachments”: [
    {
      “color”: “#9737EE”,
      “fields”: [
      {
       “title”: title,
       “value”: message,
       “short”: “false”,
       }
      ]}
      ]}
    byte_length = str(sys.getsizeof(slack_data))
    headers = {‘Content-Type’: “application/json”, ‘Content-Length’:     byte_length}
    response = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(slack_data),    headers=headers)
   if response.status_code != 200:
       raise Exception(response.status_code, response.text)

Step 9: Finally, our channel will get a message from our source file

Thank You !