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Post messages to Slack when events occur.

Using our official Slack integration

  • Create any tasks possible with the Slack API.

  • Use io.runTask() and the official SDK or fetch.

    • Example code using Slack

    Below are some working code examples of how you can use Slack with Trigger.dev. These samples are open source and maintained by the community, you can copy and paste them into your own projects.

    Send a message to a Slack channel when a repo is starred.Send a reminder message to a Slack channel if a GitHub issue is left open for 24 hours.Posts Linear issues to Slack every weekday at 9am using Cron.Summarize GitHub commits using OpenAI and then post them to Slack.Send an activity summary email, and post it to Slack at 4pm every Friday.
    import { TriggerClient } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";
    import { Github, events } from "@trigger.dev/github";
    import { Slack } from "@trigger.dev/slack";
    const github = new Github({ id: "github" });
    const slack = new Slack({ id: "slack" });
    

    // This Job will run when a star is added or removed from the triggerdotdev/trigger.dev repo
    client.defineJob({
      id: "github-new-star-to-slack",
      name: "GitHub: new star to slack",
      version: "1.0.0",
      trigger: github.triggers.repo({
        event: events.onStar,
        owner: "<your-org-name>",
        repo: "<your-repo-name>",
      }),
      integrations: {
        slack,
      },
      run: async (payload, io, ctx) => {
        await io.slack.postMessage("post message", {
          channel: process.env.SLACK_CHANNEL_ID!,
          text: `New GitHub star from ${payload.sender.html_url}, ${payload.sender.name}. Your new GitHub star count is ${payload.repository.stargazers_count}.`,
        });
      },
    });

    Full-stack Slack example projects

    Summarize a block of text using OpenAI

    Summarize a block of text using OpenAI

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