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On a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive. Configuring slack webhook. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Whether you’re starting in 102 or you’ve tested into 401, let’s confirm your accounts are ready for success! Take a moment to create consistent profiles for Canvas, GitHub, and Slack. Then introduce yourself in your new class-specific Slack channel.

Profile Picture

You will need a photograph of your lovely face. Not your cat, pet llama, a Klingon. Not a cartoon or bitmoji. Add a nice head-shot so that we can learn your name faster and give you better feedback on assignments. Your profile picture should be identical across Canvas, GitHub, and Slack.

Get Familiar with Your Online Tools

Canvas is an essential part of your online learning experience, and lets you submit and track all assignments.

GitHub is the online place to store your code using the Git version control system.

Github

Slack is a nice chat program that will let you communicate directly with classmates, instructors, and TAs.

Canvas Setup

Please take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with Canvas. Start by watching this Canvas overview video (5 min). Pro Tip: Then just poke around and explore a little.

Github Slack Team

Once you’ve gotten the hang of it, there are a few key settings that are important for you to adjust right away.

  1. In the nav column at the left, click Account. Open the Settings page from there. Then, click on the Edit Settings button on the right. Make sure your timezone is set correctly.

  2. Add your complete name, and other full contact information. Please include backup email (if you have one), and a phone number (useful in case of emergency).

  3. Add your profile picture. Remember, use the same image as GitHub and Slack!

  4. Click on Notifications and make sure everything is set to ASAP. Because of the compressed time frame of this course we’ve found this is the best way to ensure you get notice of changes.

Github Slack

Github Setup

If you already have a GitHub account, Great! Complete any remaining steps.

  1. Go to GitHub.com. Sign up for a free account.
  2. Let us know a bit about about yourself by setting up your profile section.
  3. Add your profile picture. Remember, use the same image as Canvas and Slack!
Github Slack

Pro Tip: Keep GitHub Presentable

Make sure you are following best practices with your GitHub account to impress any potential employers who view it.

Follow this individual workshop to learn the expectations for your account.

Share a link to your profile, and invite your classmates to “star” your best repos, or follow you if they’d like.

Slack Setup

Github Slack

Slack

Use the link below to go to the class Slack Workspace and configure your account along with your same profile picture, if you haven’t already.

  1. Send a message in your class Slack channel with a brief introduction.
    • You can find your class channel under Channels in the sidebar
    • Your class channel will have the same name as the code for your class
    • In your intro message be sure to include A) your name, B) your background, C) your computer operating system version number, and D) why you are excited for this class.
  2. Explore the other channels that are available, and feel free to join and participate in any others that look interesting to you.
  3. Slack offers both desktop and mobile application versions. Once your account is configured, download and install both of those, too.

Submission Instructions

Github Slack Api

Once you setup your accounts, leave a message in the submission field for this assignment with your personal introduction (and pronoun) to the instructional team along with the URL to your github profile page.

See you in Canvas, GitHub, and Slack; and see you in class soon!

A Webhook, in simple terms, is a user-defined HTTP callback. It is a mechanism for the system to notify you about an event.In our case, we need to send messages to a particular channel in slack. Slack calls in Incoming Webhook. It is a mechanismto send messages to your Slack Channel from external sources. These external sources could be any application or servicethat is capable of sending a JSON payload over HTTP into a Slack Channel. Each Channel will be identified by aunique Incoming Webhook URL to which you can post the message from outside. This configuration is done via the Integrations for your channel.

Github Slack Bot

Steps to create a incoming webhook in Slack:

Github Slack Commands

  1. Naviagte to the Incoming Webhook URL. Click the hyper link incoming webhook integration below the heading Incoming Webhooks.
  2. You will be asked to enter your team URL, followed by your slack credentials.
  3. Once you have completed the above step, you will see the wizard kind of webpage to create a new webhook. First, Select the channel to which you want to post. If you want to create a new channel click the create a new channel hyperlink.
  4. Then, click the green button Add Incoming Webhook. You will see a unique URL generated which can be used to send notifications to that channel.
  5. Other seetings like changing the icon of the slack bot or other settings can be done by scrolling down the form.
  6. Now, you can test it by sending messages to the channel using CURL.curl -X POST --data-urlencode 'payload={'channel': '#general', 'username': 'webhookbot', 'text': 'This is posted to #general and comes from a bot named webhookbot.', 'icon_emoji': ':ghost:'}' https://hooks.slack.com/services/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.
  7. You can also axios and here is the snippet for that:

By following above steps, one can create a slack webHook to a particular channel and send notifications to it from any sources.





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