hipcat is a command line tool that posts messages to Hipchat This tool was forked from slackcat to support Hipchat.

$ echo "hello" | hipcat

If you have a working Go installation run go get github.com/jburnham/hipcat.

You need to create an API Token.

You can then configure hipcat through a config file and/or environment variables.

{
    "api_token":"RK4U0ZmdsTkc4ap8tKY9qDe8Ps1lT38cBh2ohGaZ",
    "hipchat_url":"https://api.hipchat.com",
    "room":"MyRoom"
}

In /etc/hipcat.conf, ~/.hipcat.conf or ./hipcat.conf

See hipcat-example.conf for a full example.

$ export HIPCAT_API_TOKEN=RK4U0ZmdsTkc4ap8tKY9qDe8Ps1lT38cBh2ohGaZ
$ export HIPCAT_URL="https://api.hipchat.com"
$ export HIPCAT_ROOM="MyRoom"

Will override file config.

hipcat will take each line from stdin and post it as a message to Slack:

tail -F logfile | hipcat

Be aware that if a file outputs blank lines, this will result in a 400 error from Hipchat. You can remedy this using grep to filter out blank lines:

tail -F logfile | grep --line-buffered -v '^\s*$' | hipcat

If you'd prefer to provide a message on the command line, you can:

sleep 300; hipcat "done"

Default: None

echo "sudo make me a sandwich" | hipcat --room test