Installing jarjar¶
Config File¶
You can use jarjar without a config file, but you’ll need to tell it your slack webhook and channel each time.
You don’t want to live that way.
Jarjar looks for a special file in your user home ~/.jarjar
for default webhook, channel, and/or message. You can over-ride anything in there pretty much any time you want.
channel='@username'
message='Custom message'
webhook='https://hooks.slack.com/services/your/teams/webhook'
Configuring Slack¶
For this to work in the first place, you need to set up a slack webhook for your team.
While you’re doing that, you can also specify a custom name and custom icon. We named our webhook robot jar-jar
, and we used this icon, so messages look like this: