Slack Status Time

Automatically update your slack status with the current time in your timezone.

This isn't probably all that useful, but I enjoyed making it. It will update your Slack status to your local hour, and set the status emoji to that hour's clock face.

Usage

Best way to go is to use Docker. It's all set to go. You just need to generate a Slack token at their API legacy token page, and then pass that in as an the argument to the run-update script.

$ ./run-update xoxp-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX...

The default timezone for the script is "America/New_York", but you can set any other by setting the TZ environment variable:

$ TZ="America/Los_Angeles" ./run-update xoxp-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX...

The script will build the docker image and run the script.

Cron

Best way to run this is via cron. Here's what I did:

Create a script that has your token in it (and never give it to anyone).

$ mkdir -p ~/bin
$ echo "#!/bin/bash -e

export TZ=America/New_York
/path/to/slack-status-time/run-update <your-slack-token-here>
" > ~/bin/slack-status-update
$ chmod +x ~/bin/slack-status-update
$ crontab -e

That last command will open an editor. Put this in it:

0 * * * * ~/bin/slack-status-update

It should now run every hour on the hour.

Enjoy!