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idea: add rss feeds to our slacks
We are getting so many awesome feeds through this repo, and in both the organiser slack and the community slack there are #rladiesblogs (variations on that spelling) where feeds from community member's blog come.
We should add the feeds from here to those slacks! We can either do that manually through the /feed command, or find some other nifty way of doing it.
I love the idea! 💜 I remember that I also tried to add my blog with /feed but failed 😄 I think if we either add the existing blogs manually or find an automatic pipeline (even better), that would be fantastic!
agree, something automatic would be great. Let explore that when we have the time. Likely the best option is to make some slack bot, but uncertain. I have colleagues who have made slack bots claiming it isnt too hard :P
ok, so I made an action that is getting somewhere, but not finishing the job correctly.
https://github.com/rladies/awesome-rladies-blogs/blob/main/.github/workflows/slack-feed.yaml
It takes an url as an input (so we can trigger it for instance after merge to main), and it posts a message to the slack channel /feed url . Problem is, Slack is not recognising it as a command, just as a message, and so the feed is not added.
I've been looking for a "command" webapi endpoint from slack, but cant seem to find it. But we have something to base ourselves off of.
That looks cool, thanks so much for the headstart! I also looked into it yesterday and found this - I’m not sure whether sending slash commands as a bot still works (SO says "no" but I’m hoping for a customized workaround 😄)
It looks like /feed is maintained/developed by Slack - I’ll reach out and ask them about a public API endpoint.
Yeah, I have been poking around for answers, and there is an undocumented webapi command chat.command that used to work. It technically still works, but you'll need a legacy token, which we cannot get a hold of :/
I know :( I got a reply and sent it to you on Slack - it's not really helpful but probably you can access one of the links? (most likely the second one)
I didn't fully evaluate them but I kept looking for a solution and wanted to leave my "finds" here to not forget about them:
- imitate the behavior of the RSS app (not sure how much work this eventually will be)
- use a specific user’s token (not directly what they say but what I thought of; I think it doesn't work because it still uses the endpoints programmatically but I'm wondering if there are permission differences when it comes to users vs bots)
- attempt of serializing and deserializing input to define the type of output
I also checked these repositories:
The more I read, the less I think we’ll find a solution in the links above - but I'm staying optimistic 😊