Sending events to your Matrix Room (webhook styles)

A great usage of Slack, and then Discord was being able to have Events coming from your business into a feed alongside other conversations going, it keeps the beating heart front of mind.

In our case it’s servers advising when they are being rebuilt, code errors and customers signing up and adding new sites.

Now we’re using Matrix we needed to get these events streaming in. The way we’ve done it is:

• Created a new Matrix user, ‘pureflowbot’ specifically to broker the Events through
• Invited this user to our ActivityStream Room
• Created a persistent token for pureflowbot using Curl commands to the Matrix server (session tokens taken from the client are not persistent)
• Sending Events from our Node back end and other services via Curl
• There are libraries available which would be handy and we might use in the future, we’ll update this if/when we do.The beauty of what we have now is it’s a very minimal code base