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vinczemarton
vinczemarton

Reputation: 8156

Recurring (daily) messages to a specific channel by my Slack App

I'm writing a slack app which provides some stats about a service by demand using slash commands.

The command calls my web api, I calculate stuff and return a formatted JSON that slack parses as a message.

I would like to do the same but automatically, every day, at midnight.

What I could do is set up the scheduling in my own server and call a webhook, which would be fine except that I want my service to be simple, passive, stateless and just respond to requests.

Is there a way to set up recurring messages in a way that slack calls my API periodically?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1514

Answers (1)

Erik Kalkoken
Erik Kalkoken

Reputation: 32747

No. Slack does currently not provide a "scheduling" function in its API for calling an external service.

So you need to either use a local scheduling service (e.g. cron) on your server or an external web-based scheduling service. I personally use for my apps a free service called cron-job.org, which provides exactly the kind of functionality that you are requesting.

Upvotes: 1

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