Slacksocket

Python interface to the Slack Real Time Messaging(RTM) API

Install

pip install slacksocket

Usage

Retrieving events/messages

from slacksocket import SlackSocket

s = SlackSocket('<slack-token>',translate=True) # translate will lookup and replace user and channel IDs with their human-readable names. default true. 

for event in s.events():
    print(event.json)

Sending messages

from slacksocket import SlackSocket

s = SlackSocket('<slack-token>')

msg = s.send_msg('Hello there', channel_name='channel-name') 
print(msg.sent)

True

Documentation

Full documentation is available on ReadTheDocs