ARCHIVED: This project has been archived. The original authors no longer use it and Slack is currently phasing out the API it relies on.
Pull Slack chat history in when opening a new buffer.
This script is not yet released, please install manually:
% curl -o ~/.weechat/ruby/slacklog.rb \
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thoughtbot/weechat-slacklog/master/slacklog.rb"
Optionally set the script to autoload when WeeChat starts:
% cd ~/.weechat/ruby/autoload && ln -s ../slacklog.rb .
Restart WeeChat or load the script manually:
/script load slacklog.rb
Note: You can generate an API token here.
/set plugins.var.ruby.slacklog.servers "thoughtbot"
/set plugins.var.ruby.slacklog.thoughtbot.api_token "abc-123"
These variables can also be modified via the /slacklog command:
/slacklog add thoughtbot abc-123
By default, the Slack API returns 100 messages when no count is specified. You can change this by setting a value between 1 and 1000:
/set plugins.var.ruby.slacklog.count 500
To change the color of Slacklog lines, change the following WeeChat setting:
/set logger.color.backlog_line darkgray
Whenever you open a buffer for a server in your servers list (and which has a
token defined), 100 messages of history will be fetched via the Slack API and
printed into the buffer.
The /slacklog command can be used without arguments to actively fetch and
print history for an already open buffer.
The script can be used outside of WeeChat like so:
% ruby ./slacklog.rb fetch API-TOKEN CHANNEL
This prints history messages on stdout and has no dependencies on the
Weechat module. The implementation is contained in a normal SlackAPI class
which is well tested.
Global functions wire this up as a WeeChat plugin in the following way:
- Whenever a channel is joined or the
/slacklogcommand is invoked, we determine the token and channel then askWeechatto asynchronously execute our script as above with a callback. - The callback will receive the lines output by our script, and print them into the buffer.