Slacktail

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Slacktail is a single-purpose command line utility for follwoing messages sent to your Slack organization chat.

Installation

$ gem install slacktail

Authorization

  1. Obtain an API key from Slack. In your Slack settings, go to Custom Integrations and create a new Bot Application. Then, find the API Token in the bot's configuration page.

  2. Set the SLACK_API_TOKEN environemnt variable to the API Token. This should probably be set in your ~/.bashrc, with export SLACK_API_TOKEN=<your token>

  3. Invite your bot to any channel you want to monitor. Type /invite @<botname> in any channel.

Usage

Follow all channels:

$ slacktail

Follow specific channels

$ slacktail general development lobby