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Slack and Postgres integration

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How to connect Slack and Postgres

  • Step 1: Create a new workflow
  • Step 2: Add and configure nodes
  • Step 3: Connect
  • Step 4: Customize and extend your integration
  • Step 5: Test and activate your workflow

Step 1: Create a new workflow and add the first step

In n8n, click the "Add workflow" button in the Workflows tab to create a new workflow. Add the starting point – a trigger on when your workflow should run: an app event, a schedule, a webhook call, another workflow, an AI chat, or a manual trigger. Sometimes, the HTTP Request node might already serve as your starting point.

Slack and Postgres integration: Create a new workflow and add the first step

Step 2: Add and configure Slack and Postgres nodes

You can find Slack and Postgres in the nodes panel. Drag them onto your workflow canvas, selecting their actions. Click each node, choose a credential, and authenticate to grant n8n access. Configure Slack and Postgres nodes one by one: input data on the left, parameters in the middle, and output data on the right.

Slack and Postgres integration: Add and configure Slack and Postgres nodes

Step 3: Connect Slack and Postgres

A connection establishes a link between Slack and Postgres (or vice versa) to route data through the workflow. Data flows from the output of one node to the input of another. You can have single or multiple connections for each node.

Slack and Postgres integration: Connect Slack and Postgres

Step 4: Customize and extend your Slack and Postgres integration

Use n8n's core nodes such as If, Split Out, Merge, and others to transform and manipulate data. Write custom JavaScript or Python in the Code node and run it as a step in your workflow. Connect Slack and Postgres with any of n8n’s 1000+ integrations, and incorporate advanced AI logic into your workflows.

Slack and Postgres integration: Customize and extend your Slack and Postgres integration

Step 5: Test and activate your Slack and Postgres workflow

Save and run the workflow to see if everything works as expected. Based on your configuration, data should flow from Slack to Postgres or vice versa. Easily debug your workflow: you can check past executions to isolate and fix the mistake. Once you've tested everything, make sure to save your workflow and activate it.

Slack and Postgres integration: Test and activate your Slack and Postgres workflow

🤖 Advanced Slackbot with n8n

Use case

Slackbots are super powerful. At n8n, we have been using them to get a lot done.. But it can become hard to manage and maintain many different operations that a workflow can do.

This is the base workflow we use for our most powerful internal Slackbots. They handle a lot from running e2e tests for Github branch to deleting a user. By splitting the workflow into many subworkflows, we are able to handle each command seperately, making it easier to debug as well as support new usecases.

In this template, you can find eveything to setup your own Slackbot (and I made it simple, there's only one node to configure 😉). After that, you need to build your commands directly.

This bot can create a new thread on an alerts channel and respond there.
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Or reply directly to the user.
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It responds for help request to return a help page.
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It automatically handles unknown commands.
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It also supports flags and environment variables. For example /cloudbot-test info mutasem --full-info -e env=prod would give you the following info, when calling subworkflow.
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How to setup

  1. Add Slack command and point it up to the webhook. For example.
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  2. Add the following to the Set config node
  • alerts_channel with alerts channel to start threads on
  • instance_url with this instance url to make it easy to debug
  • slack_token with slack bot token to validate request
  • slack_secret_signature with slack secret signature to validate request
  • help_docs_url with help url to help users understand the commands
  1. Build other workflows to call and add them to commands in Set Config. Each command must be mapped to a workflow id with an Execute Workflow Trigger node
  2. Activate workflow 🚀

How to adjust

  1. Add your own commands.
  2. Depending on your need, you might need to lock down who can call this.

Nodes used in this workflow

Popular Slack and Postgres workflows

Slack node
HTTP Request node
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🤖 Advanced Slackbot with n8n

Use case Slackbots are super powerful. At n8n, we have been using them to get a lot done.. But it can become hard to manage and maintain many different operations that a workflow can do. This is the base workflow we use for our most powerful internal Slackbots. They handle a lot from running e2e tests for Github branch to deleting a user. By splitting the workflow into many subworkflows, we are able to handle each command seperately, making it easier to debug as well as support new usecases. In this template, you can find eveything to setup your own Slackbot (and I made it simple, there's only one node to configure 😉). After that, you need to build your commands directly. This bot can create a new thread on an alerts channel and respond there. Or reply directly to the user. It responds for help request to return a help page. It automatically handles unknown commands. It also supports flags and environment variables. For example /cloudbot-test info mutasem --full-info -e env=prod would give you the following info, when calling subworkflow. How to setup Add Slack command and point it up to the webhook. For example. Add the following to the Set config node alerts_channel with alerts channel to start threads on instance_url with this instance url to make it easy to debug slack_token with slack bot token to validate request slack_secret_signature with slack secret signature to validate request help_docs_url with help url to help users understand the commands Build other workflows to call and add them to commands in Set Config. Each command must be mapped to a workflow id with an Execute Workflow Trigger node Activate workflow 🚀 How to adjust Add your own commands. Depending on your need, you might need to lock down who can call this.
Postgres node
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ETL pipeline for text processing

This workflow allows you to collect tweets, store them in MongoDB, analyse their sentiment, insert them into a Postgres database, and post positive tweets in a Slack channel. Cron node: Schedule the workflow to run every day Twitter node: Collect tweets MongoDB node: Insert the collected tweets in MongoDB Google Cloud Natural Language node: Analyse the sentiment of the collected tweets Set node: Extract the sentiment score and magnitude Postgres node: Insert the tweets and their sentiment score and magnitude in a Posgres database IF node: Filter tweets with positive and negative sentiment scores Slack node: Post tweets with a positive sentiment score in a Slack channel NoOp node: Ignore tweets with a negative sentiment score
Code node
HTML node
Gmail node
+5

Suspicious Login Detection

This n8n workflow is designed for security monitoring and incident response when suspicious login events are detected. It can be initiated either manually from within the n8n UI for testing or automatically triggered by a webhook when a new login event occurs. The workflow first extracts relevant data from the incoming webhook payload, including the IP address, user agent, timestamp, URL, and user ID. It then splits into three parallel processing paths. In the first path, it queries GreyNoise's Community API to retrieve information about the investigated IP address. Depending on the classification and trust level received from GreyNoise, the alert is given a High, Medium, or Low priority. This priority is assigned based on the best practices documentation from GreyNoise on how to apply their data to analysis. Once a priority is assigned, a message is sent to a Slack channel to notify users about the alert. The second path involves fetching geolocation data about the IP address using IP-API's Geolocation API and merging it with data from the UserParser node. This data is then combined with the data obtained from GreyNoise. In the third path, the UserParser node queries the Userparser IP address and user agent lookup API to obtain information about the user's IP and user agent. This data is merged with the IP-API data and GreyNoise data. The workflow then checks if the IP address is considered an unknown threat by examining both the noise and riot fields from GreyNoise. If it is considered an unknown threat, the workflow proceeds to retrieve the last 10 login records for the same user from a Postgres database. If there are any discrepancies in the login information, indicating a new location or device/browser, the user is informed via email. Potential issues when setting up this workflow include ensuring that credentials are correctly entered for GreyNoise and UserParser nodes, and addressing any discrepancies in the data sources that could lead to false positives or negatives in threat detection. Additionally, the usage of hardcoded API keys should be replaced with credentials for security and flexibility. Thorough testing and validation with sample data are crucial to ensure the workflow performs as expected and aligns with security incident response procedures.
Aggregate node
Postgres node
HTTP Request node
+5

Enrich up to 1500 emails per hour with Dropcontact batch requests

The template allows to make Dropcontact batch requests up to 250 requests every 10 minutes (1500/hour). Valuable if high volume email enrichment is expected. Dropcontact will look for email & basic email qualification if first_name, last_name, company_name is provided. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Step 1: Node "Profiles Query" Connect your own source (Airtable, Google Sheets, Supabase,...) the template is using Postgres by default. Note I: Be careful your source is only returning a maximum of 250 items. Note II: The next node uses the next variables, make sure you can map these from your source file: first_name last_name website (company_name would work too) full_name (see note) Note III: This template is using the Dropcontact Batch API, which works in a POST & GET setup. Not a GET request only to retrieve data, as Dropcontact needs to process the batch data load properly. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Step 2: Node "Data Transformation" Will transform the input variables in the proper json format. This json format is expected from the Dropcontact API to make a batch request. "full_name" is being used as a custom identifier to update the returned email to the proper contact in your source database. To make things easy, use a unique identiefer in the full_name variable. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Step3: Node: "Bulk Dropcontact Requests". Enter your Dropcontact credentials in the node: Bulk Dropcontact Requests. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Step4: Connect your output source by mapping the data you like to use. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Step5: Node: "Slack" (OPTIONAL) Connect your slack account, if an error occur, you will be notified. TIP: Try to run the workflow with a batch of 10 (not 250) as it might need to run initially before you will be able to map the data to your final destination. Once the data fields are properly mapped, adjust back to 250.

Build your own Slack and Postgres integration

Create custom Slack and Postgres workflows by choosing triggers and actions. Nodes come with global operations and settings, as well as app-specific parameters that can be configured. You can also use the HTTP Request node to query data from any app or service with a REST API.

Slack supported actions

Archive
Archives a conversation
Close
Closes a direct message or multi-person direct message
Create
Initiates a public or private channel-based conversation
Get
Get information about a channel
Get Many
Get many channels in a Slack team
History
Get a conversation's history of messages and events
Invite
Invite a user to a channel
Join
Joins an existing conversation
Kick
Removes a user from a channel
Leave
Leaves a conversation
Member
List members of a conversation
Open
Opens or resumes a direct message or multi-person direct message
Rename
Renames a conversation
Replies
Get a thread of messages posted to a channel
Set Purpose
Sets the purpose for a conversation
Set Topic
Sets the topic for a conversation
Unarchive
Unarchives a conversation
Get
Get Many
Get & filters team files
Upload
Create or upload an existing file
Delete
Get Permalink
Search
Send
Send and Wait for Approval
Update
Add
Adds a reaction to a message
Get
Get the reactions of a message
Remove
Remove a reaction of a message
Add
Add a star to an item
Delete
Delete a star from an item
Get Many
Get many stars of autenticated user
Get
Get information about a user
Get Many
Get a list of many users
Get User's Profile
Get a user's profile
Get User's Status
Get online status of a user
Update User's Profile
Update a user's profile
Create
Disable
Enable
Get Many
Update

Postgres supported actions

Delete
Delete an entire table or rows in a table
Execute Query
Execute an SQL query
Insert
Insert rows in a table
Insert or Update
Insert or update rows in a table
Select
Select rows from a table
Update
Update rows in a table

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