Ubuntu Manpage: localslackirc - Creates an IRC server running locally, which acts as a gateway to slack for one user.

NAME

       localslackirc - Creates an IRC server running locally, which acts as a gateway to slack for one user.

SYNOPSIS

       localslackirc [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

This command starts an IRC server running on 127.0.0.1:9007 which acts as a gateway to slack for one
user.
To connect to multiple instances it is necessary to run multiple instances of this software.

Options:

-h, --help
Show the help message and exit.

-v, --version
Show the version and exit.

-p PORT, --port PORT
Set the port number. The default is 9007.

-i IP, --ip IP
Set the IP (Ipv4 only) address to listen to. The default is 127.0.0.1.

-t TOKENFILE, --tokenfile TOKENFILE
Set the token file. The default is ~/.localslackirc.

-c TOKENFILE, --cookiefile TOKENFILE
Set the cookie file. This is only used on slack, and is only useful if your token starts with
"xoxc".

-u, --nouserlist
Don't display userlist in the IRC client.

-j, --autojoin
Automatically join all remote channels.

-o, --override
Allow listening on addresses that do not start with 127.*
This is potentially dangerous.

--downloads-directory
Where to create files for automatic downloads. It defaults to /tmp.
The directory must exist and be writeable. Files will automatically be downloaded in it.
No cleaning is automatically performed on it by localslackirc.

--formatted-max-lines
Maximum amount of lines in a formatted text to send to the client rather than store in a file.
When people send logs or otherwise long text content as formatted text, the end result is usually
hardly readable in IRC, having the username of the sender and the time in each line.
This option sets a limit for formatted content to be sent as text.
When the limit is exceeded, the formatted text will be stored as a .txt file instead and its URL
will be shown in the IRC client.
The files will be saved in the path specified by "downloads directory".
The files are not automatically removed.
Setting to 0 (the default) will send everything to the client and create no text files.

-f --status-file
Path to the file keeping the status. When this is set, it allows for the history to be loaded on
start.

--silenced-yellers
Comma separated list of nicknames that are prevented from using general mentions (@here, @channel,
@everyone, and the likes).
Since some people are greatly abusing the feature, this is to make them less annoying.
Their messages aren't blocked and are shown as "yelling MESSAGE", but the nickname of the user
won't be injected in the message, so the IRC client won't create a notification.

-d --debug
Enables debugging logs.

--log-suffix
Instead of using localslackirc as ident for syslog, this appends a custom string, separated by a
-.
This is useful when running several instances, to be able to distinguish the logs.
The default .service file uses this. Of course journald keeps track of the services but this makes
it easier to have the information on text dumps or other logging daemons such as rsyslog.

--ignored-channels
Comma separated list of channels to ignore and not automatically join on IRC.
It is ignored unless autojoin is set.
If a channel is in this list, the IRC client will not automatically join it, but on slack you will
still be inside the channel
This is useful to avoid off topic channels in which coworkers who can't take a hint keep re-
inviting.
The ignored channels can be joined again if needed, with a /join #channel command. However the
conversation history will not be fetched.
For channel names containing non ascii characters, their ascii representation needs to be used.
Use /list to see which that is.

TOKEN

       The  access  token is (unless specified otherwise) located in ~/.localslackirc, for information on how to
       obtain your token, check the README file.

ENVIRONMENT

       The following environment variables are used. They override command line settings.  The  alternatives  to
       switches must contain "true" to work.

       COOKIE Alternative to --cookiefile

       DOWNLOADS_DIRECTORY
              Alternative to --downloads-directory

       FORMATTED_MAX_LINES
              Alternative to --formatted-max-lines

       PORT   Alternative to --port

       TOKEN  Alternative to --tokenfile

       PROCESS_OWNER
              If  running as root, this is the name of the user to switch to. If this is not specified, "nobody"
              will be used.
              This is very useful to start localslackirc as a service and configure which user  to  use  in  the
              configuration file.

       IP_ADDRESS
              Alternative to --ip

       OVERRIDE_LOCAL_IP
              Alternative to --override

       STATUS_FILE
              Path to the status file

       AUTOJOIN
              Alternative to --autojoin

       NOUSERLIST
              Alternative to --nouserlist

       DEBUG  Alternative to --debug

       LOG_SUFFIX
              Alternative to --log-suffix

       IGNORED_CHANNELS
              Alternative to --ignored-channels

       SILENCED_YELLERS
              Alternative to --silenced-yellers

Additional IRC commands

       Some commands are added, to use some additional features that are present in slack but not IRC.

       /sendfile destination /path/to/file
              Sends the specified file to destination.
              The destination can be a user or a channel, in which case it must begin with #.

       /annoy user [duration]
              The indicated user will be annoyed.
              This  means  that whenever a typing event is received from that user, on any channel, a type event
              on the same channel will be sent back, making the user think you are about to write something too.
              duration is the duration of the annoyance in minutes. It defaults to 10.

WEB

       https://github.com/ltworf/localslackirc

AUTHOR

       Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>

IRC gateway for slack                             Sep 23, 2021                                  localslackirc(1)