grunt-slack-upload

Upload files to Slack

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-slack-upload --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-slack-upload');

The "slack_upload" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named slack_upload to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  slack_upload: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

See https://api.slack.com/methods/files.upload for detailed information.

options.token

Type: String Required

Slack authentication token.

options.file

Type: String Optional

Path to the file to upload.

options.content

Type: String Optional

The content to upload (instead of uploading a file).

options.filetype

Type: String Optional

Slack internal file type identifier.

options.filename

Type: String Optional

Filename of file.

options.title

Type: String Optional

Title of file.

options.initialComment

Type: String Optional

Initial comment to add to file.

options.channels

Type: String Optional

Comma separated list of channels to share the file into.

Usage Examples

Uploading CHANGELOG.md using slack_upload

grunt.initConfig({
  slack_upload: {
    options: {
      token: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
      filetype: 'post',
      file: 'CHANGELOG.md',
      title: 'Changelog',
      channels: 'xxxxxxx'
    }
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.