Pubmed searches for Slack

This utility searches PubMed for a list of search terms, and inserts the results into a Slack channel via an appropriate webhook.

I wrote this mostly to teach myself some Python---you have been warned. Any comments/improvements welcome!

Usage

• Set up a webhook in Slack for the channel to post to.
• Set an environment variable SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL with the URL.
• Set your search terms (currently done by editing the pubmed_slack.py script.
• Run python pubmed_slack.py.
• Your search result will appear in the channel, with link to Pubmed and a random emoji.