slack-term

A Slack client for your terminal.

Installation

Binary installation

Download a compatible binary for your system. For convenience, place slack-term in a directory where you can access it from the command line. Usually this is /usr/local/bin.

$ mv slack-term /usr/local/bin

Via Go

If you want, you can also get slack-term via Go:

$ go get -u github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term
$ go install .

Via docker

You can also run it with docker, make sure you have a valid config file on your host system.

docker run -it -v [config-file]:/config erroneousboat/slack-term

Setup

1. Get a slack token, click here

2. Running slack-term for the first time, will create a default config file at ~/.config/slack-term/config.

$ slack-term

1. Update the config file and update your slack_token For more configuration options of the config file, see the wiki.

{
    "slack_token": "yourslacktokenhere"
}

Usage

When everything is setup correctly you can run slack-term with the following command:

$ slack-term

Default Key Mapping

Below are the default key-mappings for slack-term, you can change them in your config file.