alejandrod/scala-slack

A simple, extensible Slack client for Scala.

scala-slack

scala-slack is a simple, extensible client library for Scala that provides an interface to the Slack API.

Note: scala-slack is a partial implementation of the Slack API. The Slack API is under heavy development, and this library is subject to frequent change.

Supported Methods

• api.test
• auth.test
• channels.history
• channels.list
• channels.setTopic
• chat.delete
• chat.postMessage
• chat.update
• im.close
• im.history
• im.list
• im.mark
• im.open

Download

scala-slack is listed on Maven Central and can be included in your project by adding this line to your build.sbt:

libraryDependencies += "com.flyberrycapital" %% "scala-slack" % "0.3.0"

scala-slack supports Scala 2.10 and 2.11.

Usage

First, instantiate a SlackClient object.

import com.flyberrycapital.slack.SlackClient

val s = new SlackClient(<YOUR_API_TOKEN>)

You can then use Slack API methods:

s.chat.postMessage("#yourchannel", "Hello World!")

You can also edit and delete messages easily by using the returned PostMessageResponse object:

val response = s.chat.postMessage("#yourchannel", "Hello World!")

s.chat.update(response, "This is my update.")
s.chat.delete(response)

Message history can be retrieved with the channels.history and channels.historyStream methods:

val response = s.channels.list()
val channel = response.channels(0)

val history = s.channels.history(channel.id)
println(history.messages)

// get stream of messages in descending order
val historyStream = s.channels.historyStream(channel.id)

historyStream foreach println

All implemented API methods are documented in the code with Scaladoc.

Extending the library

scala-slack can easily be extended to accommodate new API methods and functionality.

For example, if Slack adds a chat.poke method, one could write a new version of the Chat class:

import com.flyberrycapital.slack.HttpClient
import com.flyberrycapital.slack.Methods.Chat

class PokeChat(httpClient: HttpClient, apiToken: String) extends Chat(httpClient, apiToken) {

   def poke(userID: String) = {
      val response = httpClient.post(
        "chat.poke",
        Map("user_id" -> userID, "token" -> apiToken)
      )

      // handle poke JSON response here...
   }

}

and then you can incorporate this into a custom version of SlackClient:

import com.flyberrycapital.slack.SlackClient

class PokeSlackClient(apiToken: String) extends SlackClient(apiToken) {

   override val chat = new PokeChat(httpClient, apiToken)

}

That being said, we hope that if you implement additional API methods yourself, you'll consider adding them to this project :)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.