Loader Slack

This is a component that reads a CSV input file that has {message, channel_id} fields, and post each of the messages to the corresponding channel via Slack API.

Prerequisite

The bot users must have the chat:write scope allowed to perform the chat.postMessage API method.

Data In/Data Out

Data In

• The component reads the configurations for authentication token and input filename.
• Reads the input file and verify fields.
• For each line of data, post the message to specified channel_id

Data Out

N/A

Learn more: about folder structure in configuration here.

 

Parameters

Bot Oauth Token (required)
the API key used to send requests to ConstactSpace API

Input File (required)
the filename of the input CSV