node-slack-upload

A node module for uploading files to slack using multipart or string

Slack is a messaging platform that is easy to integrate with. This module should be useful for for uploading files to Slack!

Install

node-slack-upload is available via npm:

npm install node-slack-upload

Usage

Get your Slack api token from here.

var Slack = require('node-slack-upload');
var slack = new Slack(token);

To upload a file from the filesystem as a post

slack.uploadFile({
	file: fs.createReadStream(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'README.md')),
	filetype: 'post',
	title: 'README',
	initialComment: 'my comment',
	channels: 'XXXXX'
}, function(err, data) {
	if (err) {
		console.error(err);
	}
	else {
		console.log('Uploaded file details: ', data);
	}
});

To upload a file from a string as a post

slack.uploadFile({
	content: 'My file contents!',
	filetype: 'post',
	title: 'README',
	initialComment: 'my comment',
	channels: 'XXXXX'
}, function(err, data) {
	if (err) {
		console.error(err);
	}
	else {
		console.log('Uploaded file details: ', data);
	}
});

For more details please refer https://api.slack.com/methods/files.upload