buildo / parolo

Forward Slack messages to AWS Lambda and store them in PostgreSQL

Parolo

Parolo smoothly forwards all your public Slack messages to an AWS Lambda function and stores them in PostgreSQL.

1. Create a Slack App

Start here: https://api.slack.com/apps

Take note of the "Client ID" and the Client Secret".

2. Deploy 🚀

In a new directory, create a file main.tf with the following content:

module "parolo" {
  source  = "github.com/buildo/parolo"

  name = "" # Unique name for this parolo installation
  aws_account_id = "" # AWS Account ID
  aws_region = "" # AWS Region

  slack_token = "" # Slack API Token
  slack_verification_token = "" # Slack App Verification Token

  pg_host = "" # Postgres host
  pg_database = "" # Postgres DB name
  pg_user = "" # Postgres user
  pg_password = "" # Postgres password
  account_id = "" # AWS Account ID
}

Then spin up the infra using Terraform:

terraform init
terraform apply

This will create:

• an AWS Lambda function
• an AWS API Gateway
• lots of AWS glue to make it all work

3. Configure the Slack App to forward messages

Find your new API Gateway endpoint:

terraform show | grep invoke_url

Then in the "Event Subscriptions" section of your Slack App configuration, enable events, paste the API Gateway endpoint and select message:channels from the list of events.

Finally remember to install the app to your workspace from the "Basic Information" section.