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Getting Started#

This integration creates a workflow with a Slack Bot trigger and Google Sheets action. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Select this integration
Configure the New Direct Message trigger
1. Connect your Slack Bot account
2. Configure Polling schedule
3. Select a User Channel
Configure the Add Single Row action
1. Connect your Google Sheets account
2. Optional- Select a Drive
3. Select a Spreadsheet
4. Select a Sheet Name
5. Select a Does the first row of the sheet have headers?
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

Details#

This integration uses pre-built, source-available components from Pipedream's GitHub repo. These components are developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Trigger#

New Direct Message on Slack Bot

Description:Emit new event when a message is posted in a direct message channel (Bot). To open a conversation, use the Pipedream Action "Send a Direct Message" to send a message from the Bot, or enable direct messages to the Bot in your App Settings (Settings->App Home->Show Tabs->Messages Tab), and send a direct message to the Bot.

Version:0.0.2

Key:slack_bot-new-direct-message

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Slack Bot Overview#

The Slack Bot API allows you to build rich, interactive bots for Slack workspaces. These bots can respond to messages, post updates, and interact with users in various ways. With the Slack Bot API on Pipedream, developers can create automated workflows that trigger on specific events in Slack, such as new messages or reactions, and then perform defined actions, like sending data to other apps or processing the information within Pipedream's serverless platform. This tight integration with Pipedream enables both simple and complex automations, leveraging Pipedream's ability to connect with numerous apps and its powerful built-in code steps.

Trigger Code#

import common from "../common/base.mjs";
import constants from "../../common/constants.mjs";

export default {
  ...common,
  key: "slack_bot-new-direct-message",
  name: "New Direct Message",
  version: "0.0.2",
  description: "Emit new event when a message is posted in a direct message channel (Bot). To open a conversation, use the Pipedream Action \"Send a Direct Message\" to send a message from the Bot, or enable direct messages to the Bot in your App Settings (Settings->App Home->Show Tabs->Messages Tab), and send a direct message to the Bot.",
  type: "source",
  dedupe: "unique",
  props: {
    ...common.props,
    channelId: {
      propDefinition: [
        common.props.app,
        "channelId",
        () => ({
          types: [
            constants.CHANNEL_TYPE.IM,
          ],
        }),
      ],
      label: "User Channel",
      description: "Events will only be emitted for direct messages between this user and the Bot.",
    },
  },
  methods: {
    ...common.methods,
    getResourceName() {
      return constants.RESOURCE_NAME.MESSAGES;
    },
    getResourceFn() {
      return this.app.conversationsHistory;
    },
    getResourceFnArgs() {
      return {
        channel: this.channelId,
        limit: constants.LIMIT,
        oldest: this.getLastTimestamp(),
        inclusive: false,
      };
    },
    generateMeta(resource) {
      return {
        id: resource.ts,
        ts: resource.ts,
        summary: `New Message Timestamp ${resource.ts}`,
      };
    },
  },
};

Trigger Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Slack Bot	`app`	`app`	This component uses the Slack Bot app.
N/A	`db`	`$.service.db`	This component uses `$.service.db` to maintain state between executions.
Polling schedule	`timer`	`$.interface.timer`	How often to poll the Slack API
User Channel	`channelId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.

Trigger Authentication#

Slack Bot uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your Slack Bot account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to Slack Bot APIs in both code and no-code steps.

In the settings for your Slack app, visit the OAuth & Permissions section on the left. You'll see a token labeled Bot User OAuth Access Token. Copy and paste that below.

See Slack's docs on Bot User Tokens for more info.

About Slack Bot#

Interact with Slack with your own bot user

Action#

Add Single Row on Google Sheets

Description:Add a single row of data to Google Sheets

Version:2.1.4

Key:google_sheets-add-single-row

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Google Sheets Overview#

The Google Sheets API allows for the creation, reading, updating, and deletion of data within Google Sheets, enabling a robust platform for spreadsheet management and data manipulation. Through Pipedream, you can craft serverless workflows that respond to various triggers, such as webhook events, emails, or scheduled times, to interact with Google Sheets. This synergy can automate reporting, synchronize data across applications, manage inventory, track leads in a CRM, or even conduct survey analysis by updating and retrieving sheet data on the fly.

Action Code#

import googleSheets from "../../google_sheets.app.mjs";
import { ConfigurationError } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default {
  key: "google_sheets-add-single-row",
  name: "Add Single Row",
  description: "Add a single row of data to Google Sheets",
  version: "2.1.4",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    googleSheets,
    drive: {
      propDefinition: [
        googleSheets,
        "watchedDrive",
      ],
    },
    sheetId: {
      propDefinition: [
        googleSheets,
        "sheetID",
        (c) => ({
          driveId: googleSheets.methods.getDriveId(c.drive),
        }),
      ],
      description: "",
      withLabel: true,
    },
    sheetName: {
      propDefinition: [
        googleSheets,
        "sheetName",
        (c) => ({
          sheetId: c.sheetId?.value || c.sheetId,
        }),
      ],
      description: "",
    },
    hasHeaders: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Does the first row of the sheet have headers?",
      description: "If the first row of your document has headers we'll retrieve them to make it easy to enter the value for each column.",
      options: [
        "Yes",
        "No",
      ],
      reloadProps: true,
    },
  },
  async additionalProps() {
    const sheetId = this.sheetId?.value || this.sheetId;
    const props = {};
    if (this.hasHeaders === "Yes") {
      const { values } = await this.googleSheets.getSpreadsheetValues(sheetId, `${this.sheetName}!1:1`);
      if (!values[0]?.length) {
        throw new ConfigurationError("Could not find a header row. Please either add headers and click \"Refresh fields\" or adjust the action configuration to continue.");
      }
      for (let i = 0; i < values[0]?.length; i++) {
        props[`col_${i.toString().padStart(4, "0")}`] = {
          type: "string",
          label: values[0][i],
          optional: true,
        };
      }
    } else if (this.hasHeaders === "No") {
      props.myColumnData = {
        type: "string[]",
        label: "Values",
        description: "Provide a value for each cell of the row. Google Sheets accepts strings, numbers and boolean values for each cell. To set a cell to an empty value, pass an empty string.",
      };
    }
    return props;
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const sheetId = this.sheetId?.value || this.sheetId;
    let cells;
    if (this.hasHeaders === "Yes") {
      // TODO: If we could create a variable using this.allColumns in additionalProps, we dont need
      // to call getSpreadsheetValues here again.
      const { values: rows } = await this.googleSheets.getSpreadsheetValues(sheetId, `${this.sheetName}!1:1`);
      const [
        headers,
      ] = rows;
      cells = headers
        .map((_, i) => `col_${i.toString().padStart(4, "0")}`)
        .map((column) => this[column] ?? "");
    } else {
      cells = this.googleSheets.sanitizedArray(this.myColumnData);
    }

    // validate input
    if (!cells || !cells.length) {
      throw new Error("Please enter an array of elements in `Cells / Column Values`.");
    } else if (!Array.isArray(cells)) {
      throw new Error("Cell / Column data is not an array. Please enter an array of elements in `Cells / Column Values`.");
    } else if (Array.isArray(cells[0])) {
      throw new Error("Cell / Column data is a multi-dimensional array. A one-dimensional is expected. If you're trying to send multiple rows to Google Sheets, search for the action to add multiple rows to Sheets.");
    }

    const {
      arr,
      convertedIndexes,
    } = this.googleSheets.arrayValuesToString(cells);

    const data = await this.googleSheets.addRowsToSheet({
      spreadsheetId: sheetId,
      range: this.sheetName,
      rows: [
        arr,
      ],
    });

    let summary = `Added 1 row to [${this.sheetId?.label || this.sheetId} (${data.updatedRange})](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/${sheetId}).`;
    if (convertedIndexes.length > 0) {
      summary += " We detected something other than a string/number/boolean in at least one of the fields and automatically converted it to a string.";
    }
    $.export("$summary", summary);

    return data;
  },
};

Action Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Google Sheets	`googleSheets`	`app`	This component uses the Google Sheets app.
Drive	`drive`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Spreadsheet	`sheetId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Sheet Name	`sheetName`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Does the first row of the sheet have headers?	`hasHeaders`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu:`YesNo`

Action Authentication#

Google Sheets uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Google Sheets account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Google Sheets and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Google Sheets API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

emailprofilehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive

About Google Sheets#

Use Google Sheets to create and edit online spreadsheets. Get insights together with secure sharing in real-time and from any device.

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