Python - Send a message to MS channel

Steps

0. End result. A message on channel.

1. Join or create a team https://mail.google.com/chat/u/0/ and create a new space.

2. Create a team from scratch.

3. Team for either private or public.

4. Team name. eg) Demo

5. More options on channel. eg) Demo >> General >> More options

6. Connectors to add a new incoming webhook.

7. Add Incoming Webhook.

8. Connectors to configure the incoming webhook.

9. Configure Incoming Webhook.

10. Name of the webhook.

11. Copy the webhook url.

12. Create a new python file and paste below code. Update url to the webhook. eg) demo.py

    #  https://developers.google.com/chat/quickstart/incoming-bot-python
    from json import dumps
    
    from httplib2 import Http
    
    
    def main():
        """Hangouts Chat incoming webhook quickstart."""
        url = '<INCOMING-WEBHOOK-URL>'
        bot_message = {
            'text' : 'Hello from a Python script!'}
    
        message_headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'}
    
        http_obj = Http()
    
        response = http_obj.request(
            uri=url,
            method='POST',
            headers=message_headers,
            body=dumps(bot_message),
        )
    
        print(response)
    
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        main()
    

13. Run demo.py. Ctrl + F5 or Right click >> "Run Python File in Terminal" within VS Code.

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