News: 1.0-RC1 is here. It is a pretty massive refactor, and fixes many of the current issues listed on github. Because there was no good way to do this, it breaks some/many existing PRs. (please report bugs in #wee-slack on freenode)
A WeeChat native client for Slack.com. Provides supplemental features only available in the web/mobile clients such as: synchronizing read markers, typing notification, threads (and more)! Connects via the Slack API, and maintains a persistent websocket for notification of events.
- New Threads support!
- New Slack Status support!
- Slash commands (including custom ones!)
- Upload to slack capabilities!
- Emoji reactions!
- Edited messages work just like the official clients, where the original message changes and has (edited) appended.
- Unfurled urls dont generate a new message, but replace the original with more info as it is received.
- Regex style message editing (s/oldtext/newtext/)
- Caches message history, making startup MUCH faster
- Smarter redraw of dynamic buffer info (much lower CPU %)
- beta UTF-8 support
- Doesn't use IRC gateway. Connects directly with Slack via API/Websocket
- Multiple Teams supported! Just add multiple api tokens separated by commas
- Replays history automatically during startup. (and sets read marker to the correct position in history)
- Open channels synchronized with Slack. When you open/close a channel on another client it is reflected in wee-slack
- Colorized nicks in buffer list when used with buffers.pl
- Colorized nicks in chat
- Supports bidirectional slack read notifications for all channels. (never reread the same messages on the web client or other devices).
- Typing notification, so you can see when others are typing, and they can see when you type. Appears globally for direct messages
- Away/back status handling
- Expands/shows metadata for things like tweets/links
- Displays edited messages (slack.com irc mode currently doesn't show these)
- Super fun debug mode. See what the websocket is saying
- add notification of new versions of wee-slack
- WeeChat 1.3+ http://weechat.org/
- websocket-client https://pypi.python.org/pypi/websocket-client/
wee-slack doesn't use the Slack IRC gateway. If you currently connect via the gateway, you should probably remove the server definition.
/server list
All servers:
slack
/server del slack
/python reload
pip install websocket-client
pkg install py27-websocket-client py27-six
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wee-slack/wee-slack/master/wee_slack.py
cp wee_slack.py ~/.weechat/python/autoload
weechat
NOTE: If weechat is already running, the script can be loaded using /python load python/autoload/wee_slack.py
/set plugins.var.python.slack.slack_api_token [YOUR_SLACK_TOKEN]
^^ (find this at https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens using the "Request token" button)
If you don't want to store your API token in plaintext you can use the secure features of weechat:
/secure passphrase this is a super secret password
/secure set slack_token [YOUR_SLACK_TOKEN]
/set plugins.var.python.slack.slack_api_token ${sec.data.slack_token}
Optional: If you would like to connect to multiple groups, use the above command with multiple tokens separated by commas. (NO SPACES)
/set plugins.var.python.slack.slack_api_token [token1],[token2],[token3]
/save
/python reload
Join a channel:
/join [channel]
Start a direct chat with someone:
/query [username]
/slack talk [username]
List channels:
/slack channels
List users:
/slack users
Close channel/dm:
/part
/leave
/close
Set yourself away/back:
/slack away
/slack back
Modify previous message:
s/old text/new text/
Modify 3rd previous message:
3s/old text/new text/
Replace all instances of text in previous message:
s/old text/new text/g
Delete previous message:
s///
Add a reaction to the nth last message. The number can be omitted and defaults to the last message. The + can be replaced with a - to remove a reaction instead.
3+:smile:
Upload a file to the current slack buffer:
/slack upload [file_path]
Run a Slack slash command. Simply prepend /slack slash to what you'd type in the official clients.:
/slack slash /desiredcommand arg1 arg2 arg3
Start a new thread on the most recent message The number indicates which message in the buffer to reply to, in reverse time order:
/reply 1 here is a threaded reply to the most recent message!
Open an existing thread as a channel. The argument is the thread identifier, which is printed in square brackets with every threaded message in a channel:
/thread af8
Label a thread with a memorable name. The above command will open a channel called af8, but perhaps you want to call it "meetingnotes". To do so, select that buffer and type:
/label meetingnotes
Note: labels do not persist once a thread buffer is closed
Set your Slack status on a given team:
/slack status [:emoji:] [Status message]
Example:
/slack status :ghost: Boo!
Set channel prefix to something other than my-slack-subdomain.slack.com (e.g. when using buffers.pl):
/set plugins.var.python.slack.server_aliases "my-slack-subdomain:mysub,other-domain:coolbeans"
Show who added each reaction. Makes reactions appear like [:smile:(@nick1,@nick2)] instead of [:smile:2].
/set plugins.var.python.slack.show_reaction_nicks on
Show typing notification in main bar (slack_typing_notice):
/set weechat.bar.status.items [buffer_count],[buffer_plugin],buffer_number+:+buffer_name+{buffer_nicklist_count}+buffer_filter,[hotlist],completion,scroll,slack_typing_notice
Show channel name in hotlist after activity
/set weechat.look.hotlist_names_level 14
Enable debug mode and change debug level (default 3, decrease to increase logging and vice versa):
/set plugins.var.python.slack.debug_mode on
/set plugins.var.python.slack.debug_level 2
wee-slack is provided without any warranty whatsoever, but you are welcome to ask questions in #wee-slack on freenode.