Question: could I use this to echo from slack to IRC?

[arielspear]

Could this be used backwards? To have messages posted in slack forwarded to a channel in irc?

[rknLA]

It's totally doable, but you'd have to change some of the code, probably around the incoming webhook to just echo everything.

We currently use !say to send specific things from slack over to IRC, so you could have a look at that code to figure out how to do that for everything in the channel.

I'm curious though, what's the motivation? It'd totally make sense if you get a lot of chatter and people typing !say all of the time, just wondering if there's anything more than that behind the feature.

[beddari]

For us it would be simply because IRC is where the devs are, slack is where our users - that we are supposed to support - are :) These users don't relate much to the full information stream from our IRC channel, but we as devs do want to keep an eye on the activity there.

Makes sense? :) Not decided yet myself how to do this.

[rknLA]

@beddari It sounds like your use case might be better supported by Slack's official IRC connection support?

Then, you would see the user room as "just another room" (albeit on another IRC server) in your IRC client.

One of the underlying assumptions of this project (not the official IRC support) is that your internal team uses Slack, and the IRC room you're bridging is public. If you're set up is the other way around, then this project probably won't be as useful as what I mentioned above.

[beddari]

@rknLA You are right, we are set up the other way around :)

I'd still need something as we're specifically trying to avoid having multiple servers and channels to monitor.

Thanks for this project!

[rknLA]

Gotcha. It wouldn't be too hard to fork this and make it automatically bridge the whole thing. :)