بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ

salat-reminder-slack

Salat Prayer Times bot for Slack integration and use API from http://api.aladhan.com

Available Calculation Methods https://aladhan.com/calculation-methods:

1. Muslim World League
2. Islamic Society of North America
3. Egyptian General Authority of Survey
4. Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah
5. University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi
6. Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran
7. Shia Ithna-Ashari, Leva Institute, Qum
8. Gulf Region
9. Kuwait
10. Qatar
11. Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura, Singapore
12. Union Organization islamic de France
13. Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, Turkey
14. Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia

Requirements

• Python 3
• Git
• Slack Incoming Webhook registration on your workspace at https://my.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook

Setup

• Clone this repo.

git clone https://github.com/mtaufikromdony/salat-reminder-slack.git

• Edit the parameter, example:

cityname = 'Jakarta'
countryname = 'Indonesia'
color = '#36a64f'
url = f'http://api.aladhan.com/v1/timingsByAddress?address={cityname},{countryname}&method=11&tune=2,2,0,4,2,4,0,2,0'
username = 'Haji Toped'
emojicon = ':kaaba:'
webhookurl = 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/xxxx/xxxxx'

• Install at for schedule command and start the service

yum -y install at

sudo service atd start
systemctl enable atd

• Install python requests library

pip3 install requests

• Start the app with this command. NOTE that you need to have python3 installed.

$ python3 salat-times.py

• check at command job schedule

atq

220     Wed Apr 22 04:37:00 2020 a root
221     Wed Apr 22 11:55:00 2020 a root
223     Tue Apr 21 17:53:00 2020 a root
224     Tue Apr 21 19:02:00 2020 a root
225     Wed Apr 22 04:27:00 2020 a root

• Setup a cron job to automate it

30 0 * * * cd /path/prayertimes/ && python3 /path/prayertimes.py >> prayertimes.log 2>&1

• Delete at command job schedule (if needed)

rm -rf /var/spool/at/*

Here's how it will look like in your channel:

Tested using Centos 7