upload file

[andrewfsmith]

Is there a way to upload a file to slack?
I see how to send messages and links, but I want to upload a local image as an attachment.
Is this possible?

[andrewfsmith]

Thanks, that would be great.

On 8 July 2014 14:20, Sergey Balbeko notifications@github.com wrote:

Yes, there is an api call for that
https://api.slack.com/methods/files.upload
I'll take a look, and probably will submit PR soon

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[timothyandrew]

+1

[vcastellm]

+1

[technicalpickles]

It doesn't look like this is supported currently. I think it'd require a few things to get going. For reference, here is the file upload API: https://api.slack.com/methods/files.upload

• add support to https://github.com/slackhq/node-slack-client for the files.upload API (I didn't see any mention of that)
• add a function to this adapter for uploading a file using that API

At that point in a script, you'd be able to call robot.adapter.upload (or whatever it's called).

For the bonus round, could look at adding explicit uploading support to hubot. At least Campfire supports it, so if there's 2 adapters would have use for it, I'm cool with seeing that in hubot upstream.

[ChrisLundquist]

After taking a look at https://api.slack.com/methods/files.upload
It looks like there is an error "User is bot", which might be why this never made it into the adapter.
I would guess that using a real user's API token, might be a work around.

[vcastellm]

I asked slack support about this and the recommended way to do it is using a non bot user.

[technicalpickles]

cc hubotio/hubot#996 where there's some discussion around adding a method to hubot adapters for uploading files

[aaronthebaron]

It looks like they've recently changed this policy and now bot users are allowed to upload files:

I can confirm this is possible using the files upload API: https://api.slack.com/methods/files.upload

[santiycr]

+1

[jiang-wei]

+1

[halkeye]

I feel like slackapi/node-slack-sdk#56 should be a priority to get merged, the code is written up it just looks like the PR has fallen silent.

[halkeye]

@technicalpickles do we have any sort of standard for uploadFile? or do you want me to make up one like I did for emote?

I have a PR in for idoshamun/node-slack-upload#2 which mostly works anyways, I was going to write a stub/fill for response.uploadFile using that for now.

[technicalpickles]

@halkeye there isn't. There is discussion in hubotio/hubot#1036 about more 'types'. I think uploadFile makes sense though.

[sheluchin]

+1

[DEGoodmanWilson]

This will be fixed in #309