slack-api

Is a Slack channel / group / im / mpim id unique across different teams? In other words, can two teams have channels with the same id? I read the docs, searched on Google and here on SO, but could not get confirmation if channel IDs are unique or not. Slack plans to clarify this in documentation soon. While in the present day you'd probably get by just fine assuming IDs are unique across different teams, we strongly recommend scoping all of your storage and retrieval by team ID. Essentially, we recommend considering IDs as only unique within teams, regardless of if experientially they are

I'm trying to use Slack's users.info API to retrieve users information, but I need to find users by email, is there a way to do that? Currently you can only look up users with users.info by their ID. An alternative solution to your problem would be to call users.list and filter within your client by the profile.email for whichever email you're looking for. Yes! https://slack.com/api/users.lookupByEmail Using this we can find a user if email id is available. More : https://api.slack.com/methods/users.lookupByEmail An undocumented API can do this job: https://slack.com/api/auth.findUser?team=

I've just created an app (slash command) and install it in one of my workspaces. But now I want to add the same app to another one. Is it possible without distribution to App Directory? If you want to add you Slack app to another workspace, you can do so without going through the process of placing it on the App directory. All you need to do is add the ability to install your app to an workspace using OAuth 2.0. enable public distribution So instead of clicking "Install app to this workspace", which works great for private Slack app, which live in one workspace only, you need a script than can

I need to post multiple bot replies (responses determined dynamically) to the same channel. The obvious way seems to be to do an HTTP POST for each message in succession using this API method: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage Is there a way to send messages to Slack in bulk to post to the same channel? The order in which the messages get rendered need not be important for me. No, there is no bulk variant. So you basically need to build your own bulk message sender. Keep in mind that there is a request limit of 1 message per second or your API requests will fail. There also is a 3

I'm building a Slack integration that is intended to modify some text and then post it to a Slack channel as though the user who triggered the command had said it. e.g. /makeFace disapproval @Ben 3:45pm ಠ_ಠ I ask for the client permission scope, which adds the chat:write:user permission. But when I hit the chat.postMessage endpoint, it only seems to allow you to post as the user who added the integration because the token it returns seems to be individuated for that user. I know that giphy, for instance, sends its gif messages as though you are the originator, but I can't find out how they