#introduce-yourself
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Fran
08/23/2021, 5:25 PMHello everyone 👋, my name is Franccesco Orozco (call me Fran!). I'm Chief Data Scientist at Radial, Inc. and I'm a fan of building pipelines. I saw Orchest and I was hooked at the potential it has.
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Yannick
08/23/2021, 5:50 PM
Hi @Fran! That’s awesome 👏
Any cool pipelines you have build so far?
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Fran
08/23/2021, 6:14 PM@Yannick Nothing out of the ordinary but I wrote a small package to use it in-house that let us know if a notebook got an error and reports it to our Slack workspace. It’s pretty handy if you want to have real time information of the execution of a notebook.
I know Orchest is in alpha, but I plan to use it extensively for testing. I can share my thoughts and feedback if you need it 🙂
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Rick Lamers
08/24/2021, 7:50 AM
Welcome Fran. Very nice to meet you!
The Slack integrations have been working really well for us too. I wrote a small snippet that sends images of plots to our Slack in a notebook as part of a simple analytics pipeline. Works wonderfully!
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Fran
08/24/2021, 1:56 PMHey that’s a great idea! I’m just using the Workflow Builder to listen for updates but you can’t send images like that. I assume you created your app in Slack?
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Yannick
08/24/2021, 2:31 PM
You could use the
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Rick Lamers
08/24/2021, 2:37 PM
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from slack_sdk import WebClient
from slack_sdk.errors import SlackApiError
def send_slack_message(message):
client = WebClient(token=os.environ['SLACK_BOT_TOKEN'])
try:
response = client.chat_postMessage(channel='#mychannel', text=message)
except SlackApiError as e:
# You will get a SlackApiError if "ok" is False
assert e.response["ok"] is False
assert e.response["error"] # str like 'invalid_auth', 'channel_not_found'
print(f"Got an error: {e.response['error']}")We upload the image to S3 and put the URL in the message. Slack generates the image preview automatically (as long as the S3 bucket is set to public)
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Fran
08/24/2021, 2:41 PMOh, that makes sense. I want to build my own slack bot but the workflow builder in Slack got me spoiled 😂