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piotrpress/slack-tail
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A simple command line tool to tail a file and send the output to a Slack channel.

v1.0.1(1y ago)030MITPHP >=7.4

Since Apr 14Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare

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Slack Tail
==========

[](#slack-tail)

A simple command line tool to tail a file and send the output to a [Slack](https://slack.com) channel.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$ php bin/tail
```

Where `` is the path to the file you want to tail and `` is the [Slack webhook](https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks) URL.

Example
-------

[](#example)

```
$ php bin/tail /var/log/apache2/access.log https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
```

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

PHP >= `7.4` version.

License
-------

[](#license)

[MIT](license.txt)

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance47

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity38

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1 days

Total

2

Last Release

392d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10326736?v=4)[Piotr Niewiadomski](/maintainers/PiotrPress)[@PiotrPress](https://github.com/PiotrPress)

---

Top Contributors

[![PiotrPress](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10326736?v=4)](https://github.com/PiotrPress "PiotrPress (2 commits)")

---

Tags

phpslacktail

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