dropbox/securitybot

Slack User lookup from email?

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#12 opened on Mar 1, 2017

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Description

Have alerts with actions assigned as email addresses currently, any way to do a lookup on the tool side to map email to slack users?

Could do a lookup in splunk but rather not have to maintain a CSV :)

Cheers, AB

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Research direction
Explore Slack Web API's users.lookupByEmail method and integrate into the securitybot's alert processing flow to map email addresses to Slack user IDs.
Tech stack
python
Domain
apibackend
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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PythonSlack API
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55