Storing Slack messages to Airtable base table

Context

This example shows how to create a workflow that retrieves the latest messages from a Slack channel and stores the date, author and content in an Airtable table.

Requirements

• A Zenaton account, APP id and API key
• A Slack account with an app API key
• A Airtable account with an API key and a table with this columns:
  • date (datetime)
  • from (string)
  • message (string)

Workflow Logic

Step by step workflow logic:

• Retrieve the last N messages from a Slack channel
• Retrieve the content of the Airtable table
• Saves all Slack messages not present in Airtable

Dispatch

Dispatch this workflow by using the Zenaton graphQL API:

curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://gateway.zenaton.com/graphql' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <api Token>' \
  --data '
  {
    "query": "mutation($input: DispatchWorkflowInput!) { dispatchWorkflow(input: $input) { id } }",
    "variables": {
      "input": {
        "appId": "<app id>",
        "environment": "<environment>",
        "name": "slackToAirtableWorkflow",
	    "input": "[\"SLACK_CHANNEL\", \"30\", \"AIRTABLE_TABLE\", \"AIRTABLE_SHEET\"]"
      }
    }
  }'

You can also use the Zenaton scheduler to dispatch this workflow every day at 2PM:

curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://gateway.zenaton.com/graphql' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <api Token>' \
  --data '
  {
    "query": "mutation($input: ScheduleWorkflowInput!) { scheduleWorkflow(input: $input) { id } }",
    "variables": {
      "input": {
        "appId": "<app id>",
        "environment": "<environment>",
	    "cron": "0 2 * * *",
        "name": "slackToAirtableWorkflow",
	    "input": "[\"SLACK_CHANNEL\", \"30\", \"AIRTABLE_TABLE\", \"AIRTABLE_SHEET\"]"
      }
    }
  }'

Run on Heroku

Click this button , then fill in the env variables and click "deploy".