Rocket.chat: Send message from command line

[iojeda]

Hi Im writing here cause i dont know any better place to do it, please if this is not the place tell me where to post this question.

I want to send notifications to Rocket.Chat channels from a computer shell command line with a xmpp client or something like that.
How can I accomplish this? I mean... what protocol or way of connection do I have available in Rocket.Chat to do that? It's xmpp or any other available?

Thanks in advance.

[bt]

I would suggest you create a new integration, then using something like cURL to make the request.

From Administration > Integrations

Create a new Incoming Webhook

Fill in the information, and at the end, it should give you an example cURL command line.

[iojeda]

Thank you very much for your kind help. This was of great help and solved the issue.

[thapakazi]

any quick examples on the the curl url and params ? @bt @iojeda

[bt]

Go to your Rocket.Chat instance, login as an administrator and then click your username on the top right and choose Administration:

In the Administration menu, choose Integrations:

Create a New Integration:

You want to send messages to Rocket.Chat via cURL, so choose Incoming WebHook:

Fill in the details as requested:

Save your changes:

Under Example box, you should suddenly get a cURL example:

@zerOnepal

[thapakazi]

thanks for quick ride @bt
but one more problem i have... How do i send multi-lines message using the curl 😞

my case here, involves "machine generated multiple line text messages" not just "text":"Example message"

thanks for the example, i am not the admin but now I know the process 😉

[bt]

@zerOnepal I guess the admin just needs to give you a token with permissions to write to a channel.

I believe text is actually HTML-based (I might be wrong though).

Try something like:

"text": "Multi-line<br />Text"

and see if it works! 😄

[thapakazi]

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[BalmanRawat]

Thank you @bt @thapakazi that was helpful. 🚀

[exhuma]

Why would I use an incoming webhook instead of using the REST API directly? I'm just curious, because I've recently written a small Python script which uses the API, and from the looks of it, the webhook seems more cumbersome to set up and less flexible.