Capture the UserID and send to Slack Channel using Python

Asked Dec 29 '22 at 07:32

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I'm having an issue capturing the userid that will send a message to my Slack Channel and give me a visibility who uses my Python script. The variable name that I use in my Workflow Slack Channel is User and it's data type is Text. The script works fine if I hard code the user but that is not what I want.

I tried below script but it gives me "SyntaxError: invalid syntax"

import json
import requests

#This will send a slack message to my logs channel

url = "https://hooks.slack.com/workflows/XXXXXX/XXXXXX/XXXXXX/XXXXX"
data = {'User': <@User>, 'Message': 'used the app!'}
headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain'}
r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)

I'm expecting the script will capture the userid whoever uses the script and send message to my Slack Channel. Correct syntax would be nice. Thank you very much.

edited Dec 29 '22 at 08:15

asked Dec 29 '22 at 07:32

JoeCastro

Can you please elaborate on how you're trying to get the value of User from? Through Slack API? – Kulasangar Dec 29 '22 at 07:43
@Kulasangar actually I have setup Slack API and I'm really not sure how to incorporate it to my python script. – JoeCastro Dec 29 '22 at 08:06
can you try `<@memberID>` instead of User? – Kulasangar Dec 29 '22 at 08:11
data = {'User': <@memberID>, 'Message': 'used the app!'} ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax – JoeCastro Dec 29 '22 at 08:13
Resolved this question by following https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13654122/how-to-make-python-get-the-username-in-windows-and-then-implement-it-in-a-script – JoeCastro Jan 04 '23 at 08:48

Capture the UserID and send to Slack Channel using Python

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