Slack API examples & templates
Use these vals as a playground to view and fork Slack API examples and templates on Val Town. Run any example below or find templates that can be used as a pre-built solution.
charmaine
templateTwitterAlert
Twitter/𝕏 Keyword Alerts [TEMPLATE] Get custom notifications when you, your company, or anything you care about is mentioned on Twitter/X, even if they don't tag you directly. This template will help you: Search for specific mentions on Twitter/X using customizable keywords. Deliver notifications wherever you'd like (email, Discord, Slack, Telegram, etc). Example This val tracks mentions of "Val Town" and related terms, excluding noise like retweets and irrelevant accounts. Notifications are sent to a Discord webhook but can be easily reconfigured for other platforms.
To see exactly how we use this template at Val Town: https://www.val.town/x/stevekrouse/twitterAlert Set Up 1. Fork this Val To use this template, fork this val on the top right corner of this page.
2. View Source Code The CODE box shows you the the full source code of this val, you may need to scroll down to see it.
3. Customize Query Define what you want to search for by modifying query : const query = "\"val.town\" OR \"val.run\" OR \"val town\" -_ValTown_ -is:retweet -from:valenzuelacity -from:val__run"; Refer to Twitter's search operators to fine-tune your query. 4. Test API call Set isProd = false in the code if you are testing, to ensure there are enough tweets to display.
Toggle it back to true when you're ready to run this cron job in production and actuall send notifications. 5. Choose Notification Method This template uses a Discord webhook for notifications, but
you can update this to your preferred platform by replacing the discordWebhook call
with a call to Slack , @std/email , etc. Create a Discord webhook following this guide . Save your Discord Webhook URL in your Environment Variables (you can find this on the left sidebar): Key: mentionsDiscord Value: Your Discord webhook URL.
Notifications will be sent using this function: await discordWebhook({
url: Deno.env.get("mentionsDiscord"),
content,
}); 🎉 Congrats! You now have a val running that ensures you never miss another Twitter/X mention. 🎉 NOTE: Usage Limits This val uses the SocialData API for Twitter data: Proxies via Val Town's SocialDataProxy : Limited to 10 cents per day for Val Town Pro users . This API is only for Pro users. Need more calls? Sign up for your own SocialData API token and configure the socialDataSearch function.
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stevekrouse
twitterAlert
Twitter/𝕏 keyword alerts Custom notifications for when you, your company, or anything you care about is mentioned on Twitter. If you believe in Twitter/𝕏-driven development, you want to get notified
when anyone is talking about your tech, even if they're not tagging you. To get this Twitter Alert bot running for you,
fork this val and modify the query and where the notification gets delivered. 1. Query Change the keywords for what you want to get notified for
and the excludes for what you don't want to get notified for. You can use Twitter's search operators to customize your query, for some collection of keywords, filtering out others, and much more! 2. Notification Below I'm sending these mentions to a public channel in our company Discord, but you can customize that to whatever you want, @std/email, Slack, Telegram, whatever. Twitter Data & Limitations The Twitter API has become unusable. This val gets Twitter data via SocialData ,
an affordable Twitter scraping API. In order to make this val easy for
you to fork & use without signing up for another API, I am proxying
SocialData via @stevekrouse/socialDataProxy. Val Town Pro users can call this proxy a limited amount per day. If you want to run it more, get your own SocialData
API token and pay for it directly.
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