Send message with different username and/or icon

[pintodossantos]

Hi,

is there any possibility to get a behavior similar to this other slack CLI-tool (https://www.npmjs.com/package/slack-cli), where a message can be sent with a different username and even with a different user-icon?
I think this would be a nice addition, so if I wanted to have a script post something to my slack channel, it would be easier to spot for the other users...
See also this youtube-video for clarification:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWljTSHRmmU&t=38s

Thank you for your help!

[pintodossantos]

Hi,

I just looked through the code and it seems modifying the chatsend() function as follows would do the trick:

function chatsend() {
  [ -n "${stdin}" ] && [ -z "${text}" ] && text=\`\`\`${stdin//$'\n'/'\n'}\`\`\`

  local msg=$(\
    curl -s -X POST https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage \
      --data-urlencode "username=testbot" \
...

Now, I saw that there is also a --user option... However, I did not yet understand what the best way would be to pass this option to chatsend() and in case it is missing use --as_user=true.
I would be very happy if you could implement that...

Thank you so much!