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Document sending Slack attachemnts (#3879)

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Support for Slack attachments was added in https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/2914 but never documented. Took me a minute to get to 😅
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Josh Nichols 2017-11-07 03:56:30 -05:00 committed by Fabian Affolter
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@ -52,8 +52,10 @@ The following attributes can be placed `data` for extended functionality.
| `username` | yes | Username if the url requires authentication. Is placed inside `file`.
| `password` | yes | Password if the url requires authentication. Is placed inside `file`.
| `auth` | yes | If set to `digest` HTTP-Digest-Authentication is used. If missing HTTP-BASIC-Authentication is used. Is placed inside `file`.
| `attachments` | yes | Array of [Slack attachments](https://api.slack.com/docs/message-attachments). See [the attachment documentation](https://api.slack.com/docs/message-attachments) for how to format. *NOTE*: if using `attachments`, they are shown **in addition** to `message`
Example for posting file from URL:
Example for posting file from URL
```json
{
"message":"Message that will be added as a comment to the file.",
@ -68,7 +70,9 @@ Example for posting file from URL
}
}
```
Example for posting file from local path
Example for posting file from local path:
```json
{
"message":"Message that will be added as a comment to the file.",
@ -82,5 +86,23 @@ Example for posting file from local path
```
Please note that `path` is validated against the `whitelist_external_dirs` in the `configuration.yaml`.
Example for posting formatted attachment:
```json
{
"message": "",
"data": {
"attachments": [
{
"title": "WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE A CURSE.",
"image_url": "http://i.imgur.com/JEExnsI.gif"
}
]
}
}
```
Please note that both `message` is a required key, but is always shown, so use an empty (`""`) string for `message` if you don't want the extra text.
To use notifications, please see the [getting started with automation page](/getting-started/automation/).