Slack bot to diff spreadsheet on command

[zachlipton]

Alexis Madrigal
8:36 AM
Guys I had a... thought in the middle of the night
8:36
Would it be possible to trigger a command after we’ve run an update that spits back into slack
8:36
(Or somewhere: having just asked for Alack, a spreadsheet makes more sense) (edited)
8:37
A table of changed values? And maybe a count of states changed and numerical increases?

Maybe this is a "everything looks like a nail" situation, but I was thinking of repurposing urlwatch for this: the Slack command runs urlwatch against the JSON API (that means there's the 5 minute lag on the data), that outputs some nicely formated output to STDOUT, which the Slack bot reads and sends back to the channel (and archives to a spreadsheet as well).