Command-line utility for posting a message as a slack bot

post_as_bot.py

import os,sys
from slackclient import SlackClient

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print "usage: post_as_bot.py <message>"
    sys.exit(-1)

msg = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])

BOT_NAME = 'BOTNAME'
slack_client = SlackClient(os.environ.get('SLACK_BOT_TOKEN'))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    slack_client.api_call("chat.postMessage", channel='CHANNEL', text=msg, as_user=True)