This Golang program reads report data from an API host with bearer auth, then compose a message and post to Slack channel

Introduction

This program reads report data from an API host with bearer auth, then compose a message and post to Slack channel

• The structs are just examples. You can craft your own structs or generate them via tools such as https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/

Two versions:

• a Lambda function to be called by AWS EventBridge Rules (previously known as CloudWatch Schedule)
• a local executable program

Build

install dependencies

• go get github.com/joho/godotenv
• go get github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda

define vars in .env file

API_HOST=
API_TOKEN=
SLACK_CHANNEL=

build for Lambda

• don't forget to include the .env in zip package; it's not there by default

cd http-w-lambda
GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o main main.go                                  
zip <function-name>.zip main .env

on Mac: run

• go run main.go

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