goteamsnotify

A package to send messages to a Microsoft Teams channel.

Table of contents

• Project home
• Overview
• Features
• Project Status
• Supported Releases
  • Plans: v2
  • Plans: v3
• Changelog
• Usage
  • Add this project as a dependency
  • Setup a connection to Microsoft Teams
    • Overview
    • Workflow connectors
      • Workflow webhook URL format
      • How to create a Workflow connector webhook URL
        • Using Teams client Workflows context option
        • Using Teams client app
        • Using Power Automate web UI
    • O365 connectors
      • O365 webhook URL format
      • How to create an O365 connector webhook URL
  • Examples
    • Basic
    • Specify proxy server
    • User Mention
    • CodeBlock
    • Tables
    • Set custom user agent
    • Add an Action
    • Toggle visibility
    • Disable webhook URL prefix validation
    • Enable custom patterns' validation
• Used by
• References

Project home

See our GitHub repo for the latest code, to file an issue or submit improvements for review and potential inclusion into the project.

Overview

The goteamsnotify package (aka, go-teams-notify) allows sending messages to a Microsoft Teams channel. These messages can be composed of 🚫 deprecated legacy MessageCard or Adaptive Card card formats.

Simple messages can be created by specifying only a title and a text body. More complex messages may be composed of multiple sections (🚫 deprecated MessageCard) or containers (Adaptive Card), key/value pairs (aka, Facts) and externally hosted images. See the Features list for more information.

NOTE: Adaptive Card support is currently limited. The goal is to expand this support in future releases to include additional features supported by Microsoft Teams.

Features

• Submit simple or complex messages to Microsoft Teams
  • simple messages consist of only a title and a text body (one or more strings)
  • complex messages may consist of multiple sections (🚫 deprecated MessageCard), containers (Adaptive Card) key/value pairs (aka, Facts) and externally hosted images
• Support for Actions, allowing users to take quick actions within Microsoft Teams
  • 🚫 deprecated MessageCard Actions
  • Adaptive Card Actions
• Support for user mentions (Adaptive Card format)
• Configurable validation of webhook URLs
  • enabled by default, attempts to match most common known webhook URL patterns
  • option to disable validation entirely
  • option to use custom validation patterns
• Configurable validation of 🚫 deprecated MessageCard type
  • default assertion that bare-minimum required fields are present
  • support for providing a custom validation function to override default validation behavior
• Configurable validation of Adaptive Card type
  • default assertion that bare-minimum required fields are present
  • support for providing a custom validation function to override default validation behavior
• Configurable timeouts
• Configurable retry support

Project Status

In short:

• The upstream project is no longer being actively developed or maintained.
• This fork is now a standalone project, accepting contributions, bug reports and feature requests.
  • see Supported Releases for details
• Others have also taken an interest in maintaining their own forks of the original project. See those forks for other ideas/changes that you may find useful.

For more details, see the Releases section or our Changelog.

Supported Releases

Series	Example	Status
v1.x.x	v1.3.1	Not Supported (EOL)
v2.x.x	v2.6.0	Supported (until approximately 2026-01)
v3.x.x	v3.0.0-alpha.1	Planning (target 2026-01)
v4.x.x	v4.0.0-alpha.1	TBD

Plans: v2

Task	Start Date / Version	Status
support the v2 branch with bugfixes and minor changes	2020-03-29 (v2.0.0)	Ongoing
add support & documentation for Power Automate workflow URLs	v2.11.0-alpha.1	Complete

Plans: v3

Early January 2026:

• Microsoft drops support for O365 connectors in December 2025
• we release a v3 branch
  • drop support for the 🚫 deprecated O365 connectors
  • drop support for the 🚫 deprecated MessageCard) format
• we drop support for the v2 branch
  • the focus would be on maintaining the v3 branch with bugfixes and minor changes

Note

While the plan for the upcoming v3 series includes dropping support for the 🚫 deprecated MessageCard format and O365 connectors, the focus would not be on refactoring the overall code structure; many of the rough edges currently present in the API would remain in the v3 series and await a more focused cleanup effort made in preparation for a future v4 series.

Changelog

See the CHANGELOG.md file for the changes associated with each release of this application. Changes that have been merged to master, but not yet an official release may also be noted in the file under the Unreleased section. A helpful link to the Git commit history since the last official release is also provided for further review.

Usage

Add this project as a dependency

See the Examples section for more details.

Setup a connection to Microsoft Teams

Overview

Warning

Microsoft announced July 3rd, 2024 that Office 365 (O365) connectors within Microsoft Teams would be retired in 3 months and replaced by Power Automate workflows (or just "Workflows" for short).

Quoting from the microsoft365dev blog:

We will gradually roll out this change in waves:

• Wave 1 - effective August 15th, 2024: All new Connector creation will be blocked within all clouds
• Wave 2 - effective October 1st, 2024: All connectors within all clouds will stop working

Microsoft later changed some of the details regarding the retirement timeline of O365 connectors:

Update 07/23/2024: We understand and appreciate the feedback that customers have shared with us regarding the timeline provided for the migration from Office 365 connectors. We have extended the retirement timeline through December 2025 to provide ample time to migrate to another solution such as Power Automate, an app within Microsoft Teams, or Microsoft Graph. Please see below for more information about the extension:

• All existing connectors within all clouds will continue to work until December 2025, however using connectors beyond December 31, 2024 will require additional action.
  • Connector owners will be required to update the respective URL to post by December 31st, 2024. At least 90 days prior to the December 31, 2024 deadline, we will send further guidance about making this URL update. If the URL is not updated by December 31, 2024 the connector will stop working. This is due to further service hardening updates being implemented for Office 365 connectors in alignment with Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative
• Starting August 15th, 2024 all new creations should be created using the Workflows app in Microsoft Teams

Since O365 connectors will likely persist in many environments until the very end of the deprecation period this project will continue to support them until then alongside Power Automate workflows.

Workflow connectors

Workflow webhook URL format

Valid Power Automate Workflow URLs used to submit messages to Microsoft Teams use this format:

• https://*.logic.azure.com:443/workflows/GUID_HERE/triggers/manual/paths/invoke?api-version=YYYY-MM-DD&sp=%2Ftriggers%2Fmanual%2Frun&sv=1.0&sig=SIGNATURE_HERE

Example URL from the LinkedIn Bring Microsoft Teams incoming webhook security to the next level with Azure Logic App article:

• https://webhook-jenkins.azure-api.net/manual/paths/invoke?api-version=2016-10-01&sp=%2Ftriggers%2Fmanual%2Frun&sv=1.0&sig=f2QjZY50uoRnX6PIpyPT3xk

How to create a Workflow connector webhook URL

Tip

Use a dedicated "service" account not tied to a specific team member to help ensure that the Workflow connector is long lived.

The initial O365 retirement blog post provides a list of templates which guide you through the process of creating a Power Automate Workflow webhook URL.

Using Teams client Workflows context option

1. Navigate to a channel or chat
2. Select the ellipsis on the channel or chat
3. Select Workflows
4. Type when a webhook request
5. Select the appropriate template
   • Post to a channel when a webhook request is received
   • Post to a chat when a webhook request is received
6. Verify that Microsoft Teams is successfully enabled
7. Select Next
8. Select an appropriate value from the Microsoft Teams Team drop-down list.
9. Select an appropriate Microsoft Teams Channel drop-down list.
10. Select Create flow
11. Copy the new workflow URL
12. Select Done

Using Teams client app

1. Open Workflows application in teams
2. Select Create across the top of the UI
3. Choose Notifications at the left
4. Select Post to a channel when a webhook request is received
5. Verify that Microsoft Teams is successfully enabled
6. Select Next
7. Select an appropriate value from the Microsoft Teams Team drop-down list.
8. Select an appropriate Microsoft Teams Channel drop-down list.
9. Select Create flow
10. Copy the new workflow URL
11. Select Done

Using Power Automate web UI

This template walks you through the steps of creating a new Workflow using the https://make.powerautomate.com/ web UI:

1. Select or create a new connection (e.g., [email protected]) to Microsoft Teams
2. Select Create
3. Select an appropriate value from the Microsoft Teams Team drop-down list.
4. Select an appropriate Microsoft Teams Channel drop-down list.
5. Select Create
6. If prompted, read the info message (e.g., "Your flow is ready to go") and dismiss it.
7. Select Edit from the menu across the top
   • alternatively, select My flows from the side menu, then select Edit from the "More commands" ellipsis
8. Select When a Teams webhook request is received (e.g., left click)
9. Copy the HTTP POST URL value
   • this is your private custom Workflow connector URL
   • by default anyone can POST a request to this Workflow connector URL
     • while this access setting can be changed it will prevent this library from being used to submit webhook requests

O365 connectors

O365 webhook URL format

Warning

O365 connector webhook URLs are deprecated and scheduled to be retired on 2024-10-01.

Valid (deprecated) O365 webhook URLs for Microsoft Teams use one of several (confirmed) FQDNs patterns:

• outlook.office.com
• outlook.office365.com
• *.webhook.office.com
  • e.g., example.webhook.office.com

Using an O365 webhook URL with any of these FQDN patterns appears to give identical results.

Here are complete, equivalent example webhook URLs from Microsoft's documentation using the FQDNs above:

• https://outlook.office.com/webhook/a1269812-6d10-44b1-abc5-b84f93580ba0@9e7b80c7-d1eb-4b52-8582-76f921e416d9/IncomingWebhook/3fdd6767bae44ac58e5995547d66a4e4/f332c8d9-3397-4ac5-957b-b8e3fc465a8c
• https://outlook.office365.com/webhook/a1269812-6d10-44b1-abc5-b84f93580ba0@9e7b80c7-d1eb-4b52-8582-76f921e416d9/IncomingWebhook/3fdd6767bae44ac58e5995547d66a4e4/f332c8d9-3397-4ac5-957b-b8e3fc465a8c
• https://example.webhook.office.com/webhookb2/a1269812-6d10-44b1-abc5-b84f93580ba0@9e7b80c7-d1eb-4b52-8582-76f921e416d9/IncomingWebhook/3fdd6767bae44ac58e5995547d66a4e4/f332c8d9-3397-4ac5-957b-b8e3fc465a8c
  • note the webhookb2 sub-URI specific to this FQDN pattern

All of these patterns when provided to this library should pass the default validation applied. See the example further down for the option of disabling webhook URL validation entirely.

How to create an O365 connector webhook URL

Warning

O365 connector webhook URLs are deprecated and scheduled to be retired on 2024-10-01.

1. Open Microsoft Teams
2. Navigate to the channel where you wish to receive incoming messages from this application
3. Select ⋯ next to the channel name and then choose Connectors.
4. Scroll through the list of Connectors to Incoming Webhook, and choose Add.
5. Enter a name for the webhook, upload an image to associate with data from the webhook, and choose Create.
6. Copy the webhook URL to the clipboard and save it. You'll need the webhook URL for sending information to Microsoft Teams.
   • NOTE: While you can create another easily enough, you should treat this webhook URL as sensitive information as anyone with this unique URL is able to send messages (without authentication) into the associated channel.
7. Choose Done.

Credit: docs.microsoft.com, gist comment from shadabacc3934

Examples

Basic

This is an example of a simple client application which uses this library.

• Adaptive Card
  • File: basic
• 🚫 deprecated MessageCard
  • File: basic

Specify proxy server

This is an example of a simple client application which uses this library to route a generated message through a specified proxy server.

• Adaptive Card
  • File: basic
• 🚫 deprecated MessageCard
  • File: basic

User Mention

These examples illustrates the use of one or more user mentions. This feature is not available in the legacy 🚫 deprecated MessageCard card format.

• File: user-mention-single
• File: user-mention-multiple
• File: user-mention-verbose
  • this example does not necessarily reflect an optimal implementation

CodeBlock

This example illustrates the use of a CodeBlock. This feature is not available in the legacy 🚫 deprecated MessageCard card format.

• File: codeblock

Tables

These examples illustrates the use of a Table. This feature is not available in the legacy 🚫 deprecated MessageCard card format.

• File: table-manually-created
• File: table-unordered-grid
• File: table-with-headers

Set custom user agent

This example illustrates setting a custom user agent.

• Adaptive Card
  • File: custom-user-agent
• 🚫 deprecated MessageCard
  • File: custom-user-agent

Add an Action

This example illustrates adding an OpenUri (🚫 deprecated MessageCard) or OpenUrl Action. When used, this action triggers opening a URL in a separate browser or application.

• Adaptive Card
  • File: actions
• 🚫 deprecated MessageCard
  • File: actions

Toggle visibility

These examples illustrates using ToggleVisibility Actions to control the visibility of various Elements of an Adaptive Card message.

• File: toggle-visibility-single-button
• File: toggle-visibility-multiple-buttons
• File: toggle-visibility-column-action
• File: toggle-visibility-container-action

Disable webhook URL prefix validation

This example disables the validation webhook URLs, including the validation of known prefixes so that custom/private webhook URL endpoints can be used (e.g., testing purposes).

• Adaptive Card
  • File: disable-validation
• 🚫 deprecated MessageCard
  • File: disable-validation

Enable custom patterns' validation

This example demonstrates how to enable custom validation patterns for webhook URLs.

• Adaptive Card
  • File: custom-validation
• 🚫 deprecated MessageCard
  • File: custom-validation

Used by

See the Known importers lists below for a dynamically updated list of projects using either this library or the original project.

• this fork
• original project

References

• Original project
• Forks of original project

• Microsoft Teams
  • Adaptive Cards (de-de, en-us)
  • O365 connectors
    • Send via connectors)
    • Create Incoming Webhooks
  • adaptivecards.io
  • Legacy actionable message card reference
  • Workflow connectors
    • Creating a workflow from a chat in Teams
    • Creating a workflow from a channel in Teams