slackin

A little server that enables existing slack team members to invite new members to a Slack server via a slash command.

For example once installed any user can run a slash command like

/invite_user [email protected]

to invite another user to the team.

How to use

Server

Heroku

Custom

Install it and launch it on your server:

$ git clone [email protected]:tikotzky/slack-inviter.git
$ cd slack-inviter
$ npm install
$ npm start --  "your-team-id" "your-slack-token" "slash-command-token"

Your team id is what you use to access your login page on Slack (eg: https://{this}.slack.com).

You can find your slack API token at api.slack.com/web – note that the user you use to generate the token must be an admin. It's best to create a dedicated @invitebot user (or similar), mark that user an admin, and use a token from that dedicated admin user.

You'll get a slash command token when you create a slash command here

API

Requiring slack-inviter as a module will return an express Router that can be mounted at any route in an existing express app.

For example to mount it at /slack-invite in an existing express app you would use it like this.

import inviteRoute from 'slack-inviter';
app.use('/slack-invite', inviteRoute);

Credits

• The invite code was taken from rauchg/slackin

License

MIT