Access Slack files from a slack bot

Question

I need a slack bot that\'s able to receive and save files send from slack chatrooms.

The problem is: slack doesn\'t send file contents, but an array of links pointing to

Answer 1

for those wanting to accomplish this with Bash & cURL, here's a helpful function! It will download the file to the current directory with a filename that uniquely identifies the file, even if the file has the same name as others in your file listing.

function slack_download {
  URL="$1";
  TOKEN="$2"
  FILENAME=`echo "$URL" | sed -r 's/.*\/(T.+)\/([^\/]+)$/\1-\2/'`; 
  curl -o "$FILENAME" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" "$URL"; 
}
# Usage: 
# Downloads as ./TJOLLYDAY-FANGBEARD-NSFW_PIC.jpg
slack_download "https://files.slack.com/files-pri/TJOLLYDAY-FANGBEARD/NSFW_PIC.jpg" xoxp-12345678901-01234567890-123456789012-abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789