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Notifications to Slack or Discord Webhook

Wed, 2018-02-28 10:01 — hansimausi

As Twitter Notifications stopped working since the update to Mac OS 10.13 (at least for me), I'm wondering if there is any possibility to send notifications to a Discord or Slack Webhook? Thanks in advance.

Simon

Wed, 2018-02-28 10:51 — David Sinclair

Re: Notifications to Slack or Discord Webhook

I haven't looked into it, but if they have a URL you can send to via GET or POST, you should be able to use the Web notifier kind to send that. See the Post to Simon Wall built-in notifier for an example.

If they require authentication, that might complicate things.

Thu, 2018-03-08 02:09 — hansimausi

Re: Notifications to Slack or Discord Webhook

Thanks for the input, I did a little research/try and error and now its working. In case someone else has the same problem: I use this PHP script to send the message to the Discord Webhook: https://github.com/AuroraAri/Discord-Webhooks-PHP

Thu, 2018-03-08 08:14 — David Sinclair

Re: Notifications to Slack or Discord Webhook

Thanks for sharing your solution!

Fri, 2018-03-09 08:25 — hansimausi

Re: Notifications to Slack or Discord Webhook

Uhm okay after 1 day of trying with the script, I got some serious problems with the Simon App. I don't know whats the problem, but the program is freezing. In the beginning it happened after a few hours, now right after the start. I'm not able to change or do anything. I re-installed the app, deleted all files, but its happening again :-(

Fri, 2018-03-09 08:30 — hansimausi

Re: Notifications to Slack or Discord Webhook

This is the whole script (from the github link) I used btw - can you have a look if there is any potentially source of error?

<?php
    namespace DiscordWebhooks;
    class Client
{
    /*
     * The URL generated by Discord to receive webhooks
     * @var string $url The URL generated by Discord to receive webhooks
     */
    protected $url = null;
    /*
     * (Optional) The name that should be shown as the user sending the message
     * @var string $name The name that should be shown as the user sending the message
     */
    protected $name = null;
    /*
     * (Optional) The image to be used as the avatar for the user sending the message
     * @var string $avatar The image to be used as the avatar for the user sending the message
     */
    protected $avatar = null;
    /*
     * The message to be sent to Discord
     * @var string $message The message to be sent to Discord
     */
    protected $message = null;
    /*
     * Set up the class
     * @param string $url The URL generated by Discord to receive webhooks
     */
    public function __construct($url) {
        $this->url = $url;
    }
    /*
     * (Optional) Set the name of the user sending the message; if not set, uses the name set in Discord
     * @param string $name The name that should be shown as the user sending the message
     */
    public function name($name) {
        $this->name = $name;
    }
    /*
     * (Optional) Set the avatar of the user sending the message; if not set, uses the avatar set in Discord
     * @param string $avatar The image to be used as the avatar for the user sending the message
     */
    public function avatar($avatar) {
        $this->avatar = $avatar;
    }
    /*
     * (Optional) Set the message to be sent to Discord
     * @param string $message The message to be sent to Discord
     */
    public function message($message) {
        $this->message = $message;
    }
     /*
     * Sends a message through the webhook
     * @param string $message The message to send through the webhook
     */
    public function send($message = null) {
        $message = isset($message) ? $message : $this->message;
        $url = $this->url;
        $data = array(
            'content' => $message,
            'name' => $this->name,
            'avatar_url' => $this->avatar,
        );
        $data_string = json_encode($data);
        $curl = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
        $output = curl_exec($curl);
        $output = json_decode($output, true);
        if (curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) != 204) {
            throw new Exception($output['message']);
        }
        curl_close($curl);
        return true;
    }
}
    use \DiscordWebhooks\Client as DiscordWebhook;
    
    $discord = new DiscordWebhook('https://discordapp.com/api/webhooks/**********');
    $discord->message('Hi, Discord!'); // Optionally, set the message to be sent here. If not set, uses the message in $this->send().
    $discord->send('**{TestName}** {TestStatusPhrase} {TestChangeDifferenceWithHTML} - {TestURL} '); // If the message wasn't set in $this->message, it must be set here. This method sends the message.
?>

Fri, 2018-03-09 10:58 — David Sinclair

Re: Notifications to Slack or Discord Webhook

I tried it, though perhaps didn't have a third-party dependency set properly.

Anyway, I didn't notice any issues. If Simon freezes again, try launching Activity Monitor (from /Applications/Utilities) and do a Sample of Simon while frozen, and send me that. It might provide a clue.

Another option could be to put the PHP script in an external file, either on a local or remote web server, and call it as a web page with the Web (HTTP) service, passing the parameters and getting them via $_GET['testname'] etc in the script.