POST a JSON payload to a Slack Incoming Webhook using Python requests

slack_webhook_post.py

'''
This is an example of how to send data to Slack webhooks in Python with the
requests module.
Detailed documentation of Slack Incoming Webhooks:
https://api.slack.com/incoming-webhooks

'''

import json
import requests

# Set the webhook_url to the one provided by Slack when you create the webhook at https://my.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook/
webhook_url = 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
slack_data = {'text': "Sup! We're hacking shit together @HackSussex :spaghetti:"}

response = requests.post(
    webhook_url, data=json.dumps(slack_data),
    headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
)
if response.status_code != 200:
    raise ValueError(
        'Request to slack returned an error %s, the response is:\n%s'
        % (response.status_code, response.text)
    )

@rafaelnpaiva - I have this problem also.

You need to use the block strucutre that Slack is expecting: (found here)

{
	"blocks": [
		{
			"type": "section",
			"text": {
				"type": "plain_text",
				"text": "This is a plain text section block.",
				"emoji": true
			}
		}
	]
}

I also need to send a simple JSON payload, and I really don't understand why there isn't a way to send our own key:value JSON block...I get that it won't nessasarily be pretty like Slack likes things to be... but sometimes we just need payloads.

@guymorrell do you have any ideas?

Hi, this is working example:

import requests

def send_slack_notif():

    url = 'YOUR_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL'
    payload = {
        "blocks": [
            {
			    "type": "section",
			    "text": {
				    "type": "plain_text",
				    "text": ":red_circle: This is a plain text section block.",
				    "emoji": True
			    }
	}
        ]
    }
    r = requests.post(url, json=payload)
    
send_slack_notif()

I want to format the code in the form of code.
```
slack_data = {
"text": "```\n" + message + "\n```"
}

    response = requests.post(
        url,
        proxies={
            "http_proxy": <proxy>,
        },
        json=slack_data,
        headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
        timeout=5,
    )
    print(response.text)
   ```

This does not format my code.