patter

Pipe stdout directly to Mattermost.

Install

$ pip install patter

Then set the following environment variables based on your Mattermost server’s config:

MATTERMOST_TEAM_NAME
MATTERMOST_URL
MATTERMOST_USERNAME
MATTERMOST_PASSWORD
MATTERMOST_PORT

Usage

Send a message to a user.

echo "testing" | patter -u some_user

Send a message to a channel.

echo "testing" | patter -c town-square

Send a file.

patter -c town-square -f some_file.txt

Todo

• add unit tests via pytest
• allow message/files that are not UTF-8 to be sent
• add option of reading from a .patter file instead of using env vars.
• remove prints and add logging via verbose flag

Contribute

PRs accepted.

License

MIT © Christopher Hranj

Notice: This project was developed in part during my 10% time at Truveris, Inc.