Interact with Chat API

Post/edit/delete messages or blocks to a channel

chat_slack(
  slack_method = "chat.postMessage",
  token = Sys.getenv("SLACK_API_TOKEN"),
  ...,
  action = c("push", "pop"),
  rate_limit
)

Arguments

slack_method

character, method to invoke, Default: 'chat.postMessage'

token

Character. Your Slack API token.

...

arguments to pass to chat methods

action

action to apply on.exit to call stack, Default: c("push", "pop")

rate_limit

Integer. The maximum number of calls to make to this function per minute. If NULL, calls will not be rate-limited. If unset, calls will be limited per the rate limit guides in the Slack api method documentation, if known. Note: If a limit is set for this method in any call in this session, that rate limit will be respected until rate_limit is set to NULL. Default: None.

Value

httr response

Details

chat methods available to post to

• chat.postMessage

• chat.delete

• chat.update

For a full list of chat methods see here

Examples

if (FALSE) {
chat_slack(
  text = 'my message',
  channel = "general",
  token = "my_api_token"
)
}