Confluence integration with Slack

Question

Hi,

I am new to administering confluence and I am looking at automating a few of our manual tasks by integrating confluence content using Slack.

We maintain a few pages in Confluence that drive content for our internal forums. I would like Slack to automatically post a reminder on a specific channel with the details of upcoming sessions.

We maintain the session details in confluence in the following ways

* Page 1: A tabular view with the title, description, date and URL of Page 2.
* Page 2: Details for a particular session. Includes names of a few key stakeholders as well.

I would like the Slack reminder to go out a couple of days in advance of the date mentioned in the cell on Page 1. It should also include the link to Page 2, as well as @mentions stakeholder names mentioned on page 2.

From what I have gathered so far, I need to create a Slack app and enable webhooks. Then create a rule in Confluence that should somehow read the above and send a Slack message to the webhook URL.

Has anyone built something like this? Looking forward to hearing tips about this problem.

Thanks

Osama Nasir · Answer

Thanks for your response. I figured out earlier today that I will have to do exactly what you have explained. I will get it working soon.

Thanks

Move Work Forward · Answer

Hi @Osama Nasir

Thank you for good explanation of your situation.

Looks like you need to build a custom solution for this.

For instance, create a lambda function that runs daily and checks your Confluence pages (Confluence REST APIs can help you here) and send data to Slack (using the incoming webhook integration).

Cheers,
Leo