Can I create Slack subscriptions to an AWS SNS topic? - amazon-web-services

Question

I'm trying to create a SNS topic in AWS and subscribe a lambda function to it that will send notifications to Slack apps/users.
I did read this article -
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/sns-lambda-webhooks-chime-slack-teams/
that describes how to do it using this lambda code:
#!/usr/bin/python3.6
import urllib3
import json
http = urllib3.PoolManager()
def lambda_handler(event, context):
url = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxxxxxx"
msg = {
"channel": "#CHANNEL_NAME",
"username": "WEBHOOK_USERNAME",
"text": event['Records'][0]['Sns']['Message'],
"icon_emoji": ""
}
encoded_msg = json.dumps(msg).encode('utf-8')
resp = http.request('POST',url, body=encoded_msg)
print({
"message": event['Records'][0]['Sns']['Message'],
"status_code": resp.status,
"response": resp.data
})
but the problem is, that in that implementation I have to create a lambda function for every user.
I want to subscribe multiple Slack apps/users to one SNS topic.
Is there a way of doing that without creating a lambda function for each one?

Answer 1

You really DON'T need Lambda. Just SNS and SLACK are enough.
I found a way to integrate AWS SNS with slack WITHOUT AWS Lambda or AWS chatbot. With this approach you can confirm the subscription easily.
Follow the video which show all the step clearly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CszzQcPAqNM
Steps to follow:
Create slack channel or use existing channel
Create a work flow with selecting Webhook
Create a variable name as "SubscribeURL". The name
is very important
Add the above variable in the message body of the
workflow Publish the workflow and get the url
Add the above Url as subscription of the SNS You will see the subscription URL in the
slack channel
Follow the URl and complete the subscription
Come back to the work flow and change the "SubscribeURL" variable to "Message"
The publish the
message in SNS. you will see the message in the slack channel.

Answer 2

Hi i would say you should go for a for loop and make a list of all the users. Either manually state them in the lambda or get them with api call from slack e.g. this one here: https://api.slack.com/methods/users.list
#!/usr/bin/python3.6
import urllib3
import json
http = urllib3.PoolManager()
def lambda_handler(event, context):
userlist = ["name1", "name2"]
for user in userlist:
url = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxxxxxx"
msg = {
"channel": "#" + user, # not sure if the hash has to be here
"username": "WEBHOOK_USERNAME",
"text": event['Records'][0]['Sns']['Message'],
"icon_emoji": ""
}
encoded_msg = json.dumps(msg).encode('utf-8')
resp = http.request('POST',url, body=encoded_msg)
print({
"message": event['Records'][0]['Sns']['Message'],
"status_code": resp.status,
"response": resp.data
})
Another solution you can do is set up email for the slack users, see link:
https://slack.com/help/articles/206819278-Send-emails-to-Slack
When you can just add the emails as subscribers to the sns topic. You can fileter the msg that the receiver gets with Subscription filter policy.