Read current stories from Hacker News, the BBC, and more right from within Slack.
The following sites are supported:
- Product Hunt
- Hacker News
- BBC
- Vice News
- FiveThirtyEight
Set up a new slash command.
-
The first thing to assign is a name for the command.
Select something memorable like
/newsand then click"Add Slash Command Integration" -
Change the
Urlto behttp:https://slckr-nws.heroku.com/news -
Change the
Methodto be GET from the default POST.
Voila! You are set up and ready to receive new and trending news in Slack. The remaining fields you can set to your preference or leave as they are.
The standard usage is as follows: /news [source] [category]
The following table outlines the possibilities for source and category.
| News Source | source | category |
|---|---|---|
| the BBC | bbc | [uk, business, health, education, entertainment, world, science, tech, top, politics, golf, snooker, sports, football, cricket, rugby, rugby_league, tennis] |
| FiveThirtyEight | 538 | [economics, sports, science, life, all, features, data, politics] |
| Hacker News | hn | N/A |
| Product Hunt | ph | N/A |
| Vice News | vice | N/A |