Sending JSON to Slack in a HTTP POST request

Question

I\'m trying to send a message using Slack\'s chat.postMessage API call. I have no problems encoding my test messages within HTTP GET, but I\'m trying to achieve the same res

Answer 1

Below curl command worked for me.

curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: Bearer xoxb-41234078565-14457098702432-ZLJj9UFOZKnOJtjNW4dv3ukG'  -H 'Content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8'  --data '{"channel":"#general","text":"I hope the tour went well, Mr. Wonka."}' https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage