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Getting Started#

This integration creates a workflow with a Slack 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 Mention (Instant) trigger
1. Connect your Slack account
2. Optional- Select one or more Channels
3. Configure slackApphook
4. Configure Keyword
5. Optional- Configure Is Username
6. Optional- Configure Ignore Bots
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 Mention (Instant) on Slack

Description:Emit new event when a username or specific keyword is mentioned in a channel

Version:1.0.15

Key:slack-new-mention

View on GitHub

Slack Overview#

The Pipedream Slack app enables you to build event-driven workflows that interact with the Slack API. When you authorize the Pipedream app's access to your workspace, you can use Pipedream workflows to perform common Slack actions, or write your own code against the Slack API.

The Pipedream Slack app is not a typical app. You don't interact with it directly as a bot, and it doesn't add custom functionality to your workspace out of the box. It just makes it easier to automate anything you'd typically use the Slack API for, using Pipedream workflows.

Here are some examples of automations you can build with Pipedream on Slack:

Automate posting updates to your team channel
Create a bot to answer common questions
Integrate with your existing tools and services
Build a custom dashboard to track your team's progress
Create a bot to handle scheduling and meeting requests
And much more!

Should I use the Slack or Slack Bot app on Pipedream?

The Slack app is the easiest and most convienent option to get started. It installs the official Pipedream bot into your Slack workspace with just a few clicks.

However, if you'd like to use your own bot registered with the Slack API, you can use the Slack Bot app instead.

The Slack Bot requires a bot token to allow your Pipedream workflows to authenticate as your bot. The extra set up steps allow you to list your custom bot on the Slack Marketplace, or install the bot on other workspaces as your bot's name instead of as Pipedream.

Trigger Code#

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

export default {
  ...common,
  key: "slack-new-mention",
  name: "New Mention (Instant)",
  version: "1.0.15",
  description: "Emit new event when a username or specific keyword is mentioned in a channel",
  type: "source",
  dedupe: "unique",
  props: {
    ...common.props,
    conversations: {
      propDefinition: [
        common.props.slack,
        "conversation",
      ],
      type: "string[]",
      label: "Channels",
      description: "Select one or more channels to monitor for new messages.",
      optional: true,
    },
    // eslint-disable-next-line pipedream/props-description,pipedream/props-label
    slackApphook: {
      type: "$.interface.apphook",
      appProp: "slack",
      async eventNames() {
        return this.conversations || [
          "message",
        ];
      },
    },
    keyword: {
      propDefinition: [
        common.props.slack,
        "keyword",
      ],
    },
    isUsername: {
      propDefinition: [
        common.props.slack,
        "isUsername",
      ],
    },
    ignoreBot: {
      propDefinition: [
        common.props.slack,
        "ignoreBot",
      ],
    },
  },
  hooks: {
    ...common.hooks,
    async deploy() {
      // emit historical events
      const messages = await this.getMatches({
        query: this.keyword,
        sort: "timestamp",
      });
      const filteredMessages = this.conversations?.length > 0
        ? messages.filter((message) => this.conversations.includes(message.channel.id))
        : messages;
      await this.emitHistoricalEvents(filteredMessages.slice(-25).reverse());
    },
  },
  methods: {
    ...common.methods,
    async getMatches(params) {
      return (await this.slack.searchMessages(params)).messages.matches || [];
    },
    async emitHistoricalEvents(messages) {
      for (const message of messages) {
        const event = await this.processEvent({
          ...message,
          subtype: message.subtype || constants.SUBTYPE.PD_HISTORY_MESSAGE,
        });
        if (event) {
          if (!event.client_msg_id) {
            event.pipedream_msg_id = `pd_${Date.now()}_${Math.random().toString(36)
              .substr(2, 10)}`;
          }

          this.$emit(event, {
            id: event.client_msg_id || event.pipedream_msg_id,
            summary: this.getSummary(event),
            ts: event.event_ts || Date.now(),
          });
        }
      }
    },
    getSummary() {
      return "New mention received";
    },
    async processEvent(event) {
      const {
        type: msgType,
        subtype,
        bot_id: botId,
        text,
        blocks = [],
      } = event;
      const [
        {
          elements: [
            { elements = [] } = {},
          ] = [],
        } = {},
      ] = blocks;

      if (msgType !== "message") {
        console.log(`Ignoring event with unexpected type "${msgType}"`);
        return;
      }

      // This source is designed to just emit an event for each new message received.
      // Due to inconsistencies with the shape of message_changed and message_deleted
      // events, we are ignoring them for now. If you want to handle these types of
      // events, feel free to change this code!!
      if (subtype && !constants.ALLOWED_SUBTYPES.includes(subtype)) {
        console.log(`Ignoring message with subtype. "${subtype}"`);
        return;
      }

      if ((this.ignoreBot) && (subtype === constants.SUBTYPE.BOT_MESSAGE || botId)) {
        return;
      }

      let emitEvent = false;
      if (this.isUsername && elements) {
        for (const item of elements) {
          if (item.user_id) {
            const username = await this.getUserName(item.user_id);
            if (username === this.keyword) {
              emitEvent = true;
              break;
            }
          }
        }
      } else if (text.indexOf(this.keyword) !== -1) {
        emitEvent = true;
      } else if (subtype === constants.SUBTYPE.PD_HISTORY_MESSAGE) {
        emitEvent = true;
      }

      if (emitEvent) {
        return event;
      }
    },
  },
};

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	`slack`	`app`	This component uses the Slack app.
N/A	`db`	`$.service.db`	This component uses `$.service.db` to maintain state between executions.
Channels	`conversations`	`string[]`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
	`slackApphook`	`$.interface.apphook`
Keyword	`keyword`	`string`	Keyword to monitor
Is Username	`isUsername`	`boolean`	Filters out mentions of the keyword that are not a username
Ignore Bots	`ignoreBot`	`boolean`	Ignore messages from bots

Trigger Authentication#

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

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

bookmarks:writecalls:readcalls:writechannels:historychannels:readchannels:writednd:readdnd:writeemoji:readfiles:readgroups:historygroups:readgroups:writeim:historyim:readim:writelinks:readlinks:writempim:historympim:readmpim:writepins:readpins:writereactions:readreactions:writereminders:readreminders:writeremote_files:readremote_files:sharestars:readstars:writeteam:readusergroups:readusergroups:writeusers:readusers:read.emailusers:writechat:write:botchat:write:usercommandsfiles:write:userusers.profile:writeusers.profile:readsearch:read

About Slack#

Slack is a channel-based messaging platform. With Slack, people can work together more effectively, connect all their software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work — all within a secure, enterprise-grade environment.

Action#

Add Single Row on Google Sheets

Description:Add a single row of data to Google Sheets

Version:2.1.1

Key:google_sheets-add-single-row

View on GitHub

Google Sheets Overview#

Some examples of things you can build using the Google Sheets API include:

A web app that lets users input data into a Google Sheet
A script that automatically updates a Google Sheet with data from another
source
A tool that generates graphs and charts from data in a Google Sheet
A service that sends data from a Google Sheet to another API or application

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: "2.1.1",
  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, `${this.sheetName}!1:1`);
      if (!values[0]?.length) {
        throw new ConfigurationError("Cound not find a header row. Please either add headers and click \"Refresh fields\" or adjust the action configuration to continue.");
      }
      for (let i = 0; i < values[0]?.length; i++) {
        props[`col_${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#

With Google Sheets, you can create, edit, and collaborate wherever you are

More Ways to Connect Google Sheets + Slack#

Other Popular Integrations#

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