ckundo / alt-text-unfurl

Alt Text Unfurl for Slack

Slack does not preview (unfurl) alt text from tweets with images. Add this integration to get alt text unfurling.

Installation

The project runs on AWS Lambda.

1. clone the repo and npm install.
2. run brew install awscli && aws configure to set your AWS access tokens.
3. copy .env.sample to .env and set your Twitter and Slack secrets.
4. run npx serverless deploy.
5. copy the lambda url printed in the output, and add it to the Event Subscriptions Slack app config.

Usage

In Slack:

/invite @Alt Text Unfurl

Paste a link to a tweet that has alt text into the channel. For example https://twitter.com/philosophequeer/status/1404408769551994880