# Writing messages from Slack to Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/writing-messages-from-slack-to-discourse/95236
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 20, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/writing-messages-from-slack-to-discourse/95236 "2018-08-20T21:27:12Z")
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### Author: ![samthebrand](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/samthebrand/32/109296_2.png) [@samthebrand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/samthebrand)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/writing-messages-from-slack-to-discourse/95236/1 "2018-08-20T21:27:12Z")

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What are my options if I want to capture Slack conversations (say, that include a specific trigger word) and automatically turn them into Discourse discussions?

Is there a bot for this?

I’m seeing this app in Github: [discourse-chat-integration](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat-integration), which looks promising. [The associated meta post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatroom-integration-plugin-discourse-chat-integration/66522) suggests I can “post a transcript” of a slack message to Discourse. Is anyone successfully using this?

I work at Union, a community platform that connects startups in accelerators and incubators, and we’re thinking about moving from our in-house discussion product to Discourse. But we want to make sure we can fully integrate with slack so that we meet our clients’ communities where they are.

Any help is appreciated.

- Sam

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/writing-messages-from-slack-to-discourse/95236/2 "2018-08-21T00:25:02Z")

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I did this for Sitepoint. I use hubot on slack with a script that listens to every message and sends the payload to a service that posts it to discourse via its API.

> <https://github.com/cpradio/sp-team-tars/blob/master/scripts/nsa-wiretap.coffee>

I haven’t published the service. Would require some effort to do so. However, that part isn’t terribly difficult.

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/writing-messages-from-slack-to-discourse/95236/3 "2018-08-21T02:29:55Z")

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> [@samthebrand](#):
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> What are my options if I want to capture Slack conversations and automatically turn them into Discourse discussions?

We have this [Discourse Chat Integrations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatroom-integration-plugin-discourse-chat-integration/66522#heading--transcript)

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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/writing-messages-from-slack-to-discourse/95236/4 "2018-08-21T05:44:59Z")

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> [@samthebrand](#):
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> suggests I can “post a transcript” of a slack message to Discourse. Is anyone successfully using this?

It will work. It’s one our #official plugins. Our clients are already using it.