Direct messages

[knagode]

Is it possible to send direct message as well with slack-notifier?

[stevenosloan]

Yep! Just set the channel name w/ @ before the username. For example to notify me:

notifier.ping "ohaiii", channel: "@stevenosloan"

[knagode]

wow. Awesome. Thanks!

[ranle]

Is this feature still working?
I tried sending a direct message to an existing username, but I'm getting this:

Slack::Notifier::APIError: The slack API returned an error: channel_not_found (HTTP Code 404)

This is the code I use:

slack = Slack::Notifier.new ENV['SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL'], username: 'Notifier'
slack.ping 'test', channel: '@ran'

[ranle]

Ok, figured it out.
Each user has a unique member id.
Sending the message to @member-id works.
Sending it to @username does not work anymore.

See image.

[siegy22]

I can agree on the statement from @ranle, apparently with users which exist since beginning of 2017 or earlier, it works with the display name. With newer ones it doesn't work anymore.

[stevenosloan]

Added a quick summary to the channel docs 4bf6582, please PR if that's unclear or missing anything 😅

[siegy22]

Thanks! @stevenosloan

[leandropessoa30]

@stevenosloan
Incredible, it would be even better if it were possible to read "slack" messages.

Thanks for sharing!

[krsyoung]

Hi folks, thanks for documenting this update. Very helpful!

One clarification, when I created my Incoming WebHook I had to specify the channel it posts to. So when I try the above, no matter what uid I reference it posts to #general. @ranle did you do something special to create a webhook that can DM any user?

UPDATE
Ok, I think I am just confused.

I cannot get this to work if I'm using a WebHook associated with a App / Bot. No matter what I specify it ends up in #general (but sent as my Bot user). I think in this case the RTM API is needed.

I can get this to work if I add the "Incoming WebHooks" App to my workspace (provided by Slack). With this App I can override the default channel and specify a user with @uid but all messages come from "Slackbot".

Here is the SO post that helped me sort it out.