3min connect Slack and Discord with matterbridge

In our case, we want to have a bridge to connect channels between Slack and Discord.

I found matterbridge. Within 3min I was able to run a bridge on my mac.

Pre-requisite

Get Token

First off, certainly you will need to have a Discord server and Slack workspace, and you will need admin power in both for creating the token.

To obtain the token for Slack, here we refer to a legacy-token, it’s legacy and thus not recommended. Follow Slack official instruction, you could go to api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens. and follow instruction to obtain a token.

To obtain th token for Discord, you will need create a Discord Bot, and then obtain its token. Follow this instruction to get a discord bot and its token.

Install Docker

Secondly you will need to have Docker if you haven’t install it.

Step 1: the config

The configuration for matterbridge is written in toml, and there is a [slack to discord example] but I slightly tweak the example to make it easier to understand, everything with a<> here needs to be changed., others don’t.

[slack]
[slack.test]
Token="<yourslacktoken>"
PrefixMessagesWithNick=true

[discord]
[discord.test]
Token="<yourdiscordtoken>"
Server="<your-discord-server-name>"

[general]
RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}/{BRIDGE}] <{NICK}> "

[[gateway]]
    name = "mygateway"
    enable=true

    [[gateway.inout]]
    account = "discord.test"
    channel="general"

    [[gateway.inout]]
    account ="slack.test"
    channel = "general"

Step 2: Run the dockerised version

See: Instructon running matterbridge on Docker

docker run -ti -v <path-to-toml-config>:/matterbridge.toml 42wim/matterbridge

And now you shall be able to send message from one and see it in another.