Slack Slash Command to Recommend Music

Requirements

• A web server running PHP5 with cURL enabled. Cloud services such as Heroku will do!
• A slack team and the ability to install custom integrations

Installation

• Place this script on a server running PHP5 with cURL. Note: It must be served over https with a valid non-self signed certificate.
• Set up a new custom slash command on your Slack team: http://my.slack.com/services/new/slash-commands
• Under "Choose a command", enter whatever you want for the command. This slash command plugin was written with /similarMusic as the command.
• Under URL, enter the URL for the script on your server.
• Leave Method set to Post.
• Decide whether you want this command to show in the autocomplete list for slash commands.
• If you do, enter a short description and usage hint.
• Create an incoming webhook
• Copy the Webhook URL into the clipboard and replace the following line with yours

$webhookUrl = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/this-will-be-unique-to-your-webhook"

Usage

/similarMusic Radiohead

Sample Output