Set up incoming webhook for direct messaging

[heyheyjp]

@prattsj commented on Tue Aug 02 2016

Fortunately, we won't have to wade in any real Meteor/Rocket.Chat 💩 to get it done. Found sufficient (though unfortunately, undocumented) support already built into RC for sending direct messages through the API.

Setup:

1. Simple webhook config

   

2. Simple API call

   

3. Et voila...direct messages

   

[jeffreywescott]

I'm a bit nervous about using #general as the fallback for something that is primarily intended for direct messages. I think I'd rather things error-out than mistakenly post to #general. WDYT?

[heyheyjp]

Totes. See my note in the image about using something safer. I bet we can set up a private channel and feed anything that falls through to that?

[heyheyjp]

When we switch this to being handled by our custom namespaced API endpoints, I like the idea of just erroring out.

[jeffreywescott]

Ah -- I misunderstood you ... I thought you were suggesting that #general was safe. Sorry.

[jeffreywescott]

FWIW, anyone with the backoffice role in IDM automatically gets the admin role in Rocket.Chat and should be able to set this up.

[heyheyjp]

Complete.