send-notifications-to-slack-from-github

This action can be used send notifications of github workflows to slack

Why slack

Slack is a powerful team collaboration tool that enhances communication and productivity. It integrates with various apps and services, allowing for seamless workflow automation and centralized information sharing. Slack's real-time messaging, file sharing, and customizable notifications keep teams connected and organized, whether working remotely or in the office

Prerequisites

• Ensure to have a slack account and have admin access there to create a bot.

• How to do it will be available in prerequisites.md file

• Configure your slack token as a secret named SLACK_TOKEN

• Pass your slack token in the workflow

Input parameters

Input	Description	Required
channel_id	Slack channel Id.	✔️
bot_name	slack bot name	✔️
file_name	files to be uploadded to slack channel. more than one can be provided as a comma seperated value	✔️

What it does

• This automation intends to use GitHub workflows to send communication to slack.

• The communications can be either files, or messages

• A GitHub workflow will be triggered with necessary input params and that can upload a file or a message to the specific Slack channel as a bot.

• The file can be of any type a json file, an image, an Excel or a xml. It Doesnt matter as long as you provide right name.

General Usage

    - name: send slack notification
      uses: devwithkrishna/send-notifications-to-slack-from-github@v1.0.0
      with:
        channel_id: "your channel id here" 
        bot_name: "your bot name here"
        file_name: "your file to be uploaded here. more than 1 seperate by comma"

Sending multiple files to slack

    - name: send slack notification
      uses: devwithkrishna/send-notifications-to-slack-from-github@v1.0.0
      with:
        channel_id: "C07EUSM8EVS" 
        bot_name: "demo-bot"
        file_name: "new/github-slack.jpg, data.json, data1.csv, abc/demo.txt"

• This will send the file named github-slack.jpg inside folder new, data.json and sata1.csv in workspace, and demo.txt inside abc folder to the slack channel with id C07EUSM8EVS

• Make sure you pass slack token for authentication

env:
  SLACK_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_TOKEN }}

Reference

https://api.slack.com/methods