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Notify Slack Action

1.3.0

Notify Slack Action

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Notify Slack Action

Send Github Actions workflow status notifications to Slack

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Notify Slack Action

              
  uses: ravsamhq/notify-slack-action@1.3.0
Learn more about this action in ravsamhq/notify-slack-action

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Create Release License: MIT

Notify Slack Action

Send Github Actions workflow status notifications to Slack regarding failures, warnings or even success. You can read more about the action in our blog post.

Features

  • Ability to control when to send notification
  • Custom Notification Title, Message and Footer using template variables
  • Mention Users and control when to mention them
  • Mention Users Groups and control when to mention them

Inputs

status:
  description: Job Status
  required: true

notification_title:
  description: Specify on the notification message title
  required: false
  default: 'New Github Action Run'

message_format:
  description: Specify on the notification message format
  required: false
  default: '{emoji} *{workflow}* {status_message} in <{repo_url}|{repo}@{branch}> on <{commit_url}|{commit_sha}>'

footer:
  description: Specify the footer of the message
  required: false
  default: 'Developed by <https://www.ravsam.in|RavSam>'

notify_when:
  description: Specify on which events a slack notification is sent
  required: false
  default: 'success,failure,warnings'

mention_users:
  description: Specify the slack IDs of users you want to mention.
  required: false
  default: ''

mention_users_when:
  description: Specify on which events you want to mention the users
  required: false
  default: 'success,failure,warnings'

mention_groups:
  description: Specify the slack IDs of groups you want to mention
  required: false
  default: ''
  
mention_groups_when:
  description: Specify on which events you want to mention the groups
  required: false
  default: 'success,failure,warnings'

Example workflows

The following variables are available for formatting your own strings.

  • {branch}
  • {commit_url}
  • {commit_sha}
  • {emoji}
  • {repo}
  • {repo_url}
  • {status_message}
  • {workflow}

You can use these to construct custom notification_title, message_format and footer. To get an idea see the workflow below.

Minimal workflow

steps:
  - uses: ravsamhq/notify-slack-action@1.2.0
    if: always()
    with:
      status: ${{ job.status }} # required
    env:
      SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }} # required

Extended Example without User Mentions

steps:
  - uses: ravsamhq/notify-slack-action@1.2.0
    if: always()
    with:
      status: ${{ job.status }}
      notification_title: '{workflow} has {status_message}'
      message_format: '{emoji} *{workflow}* {status_message} in <{repo_url}|{repo}>'
      footer: 'Linked Repo <{repo_url}|{repo}>'
      notify_when: 'failure'
    env:
      SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}

Extended Example with User Mentions

steps:
  - uses: ravsamhq/notify-slack-action@1.2.0
    if: always()
    with:
      status: ${{ job.status }}
      notification_title: '{workflow} has {status_message}'
      message_format: '{emoji} *{workflow}* {status_message} in <{repo_url}|{repo}>'
      footer: 'Linked Repo <{repo_url}|{repo}>'
      notify_when: 'failure'
      mention_users: 'U0160UUNH8S,U0080UUAA9N'
      mention_users_when: 'failure,warnings'
    env:
      SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}

To get the Slack Member IDs, open the User profile you want to mention. Click More and Copy Member ID.

Extended Example with Users Groups Mentions

steps:
  - uses: ravsamhq/notify-slack-action@1.2.0
    if: always()
    with:
      status: ${{ job.status }}
      notification_title: '{workflow} has {status_message}'
      message_format: '{emoji} *{workflow}* {status_message} in <{repo_url}|{repo}>'
      footer: 'Linked Repo <{repo_url}|{repo}>'
      notify_when: 'failure'
      mention_users: 'U0160UUNH8S,U0080UUAA9N'
      mention_users_when: 'failure,warnings'
      mention_groups: 'SAZ94GDB8'
      mention_groups_when: 'failure,warnings'
    env:
      SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}

Tech Stack

Development

Follow these instructions to get the project up and running.

# clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/ravsamhq/notify-slack-action.git

# change directory
cd notify-slack-action

# setup python virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv

# activate virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate

# install pip dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Versioning

This project uses SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

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