slambdack

Slack Helpers for AWS Lambda

Usage

// You need to provide the URL for your Webhook endpoint (or just the token)
var webhookUri = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/<some long token>";
var slack = require("slambdack")({
	webhookUri: webhookUri
});
// See:
//   - https://api.slack.com/docs/formatting
//   - https://api.slack.com/docs/attachments
var message = {
	username: "slambdack", // optional: overrides the default webhook username
	channel: "#my-channel", // optional: overrides the default webhook channel
	text: "*Hi, there, _friend_!*",
	attachments: [
		{
			fallback: "Hi, there",
			text: "*Hi, there!*",
			mrkdwn_in: [ "text", "fields" ],
			fields: [
				{
					title: "Message",
					value: "*Hi, there, _friend_!*"
				},
				{
					title: "Post time",
					value: slack.formatDate(new Date()), // formatted like: "01 Jan 1969 at 12:00:00 GMT"
					short: true // short-width fields allow you to stack fields side-by-side
				}
			]
		}
	]
};
slack.notify(message, function (err, response) {
	// maybe do something
});

Methods

notify(message<Object>, cb<Function>)

Posts the message to Slack.

formatDate(date<Date>)

Returns date formatted like: "01 Jan 1969 at 12:00:00 GMT".

log()

By default, we log stuff to stdout. This exposes that log function.

This is useful on AWS Lambda because it's the only way to get logs into your Cloudwatch logs. Set process.env.SLAMBDACK_SILENT to something truthy to disable this output.

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