Disable Slack notifications for the weekend

slack-dnd.md

Disable Slack notifications for the weekend

There isn't a way to configure DND for the weekend on Slack. However, you can use the /dnd 24 hours command to disable notifications for 24 hours using the undocumented API and legacy tokens. We're going to use the undocumented api and IFTTT to automate this.

Steps

1. Generate a token for your account
2. Navigate to your personal DM and copy the url (e.g. DAYM93S0N from acme.slack.com/messages/DAYM93S0N/convo/GBG661YR2-1536698414.000100/)
3. Update the following url with your information (TOKEN looks like xoxp-4030334043-4959593942-3030320302032-sdf23rfasdf23rsf and CHANNEL looks like DAYM93S0N)

   https://slack.com/api/chat.command?token=xoxp-4030334043-4959593942-3030320302032-sdf23rfasdf23rsf&channel=DAYM93S0N&command=%2Fdnd&text=24%20hours

4. You should have a url like this: https://slack.com/api/chat.command?token=xoxp-4030334043-4959593942-3030320302032-sdf23rfasdf23rsf&channel=DAYM93S0N&command=%2Fdnd&text=24%20hours
5. Test your url like the following

   unset HISTFILE # don't want to store these credentials
   curl --request POST \
     --url "https://slack.com/api/chat.command?token=xoxp-4030334043-4959593942-3030320302032-sdf23rfasdf23rsf&channel=DAYM93S0N&command=%2Fdnd&text=24%20hours"
     
   # expected response
   # {"ok":true,"response":"All set. I\u2019ve turned on Do Not Disturb"}

6. Create a new IFTTT applet with the "Date & Time" service that triggers "Every day of the week at" and check Saturday and Sunday. Create a "that" webhook that makes a request to the url we made with a "GET" method. Leave everything else blank.
7. You're done. You should now have DND enabled automatically for the weekend.

This is obsolete now that https://slack.com/help/articles/214908388-Pause-notifications-with-Do-Not-Disturb exists.