slack-api

My slack channel supports the /poll command from the Simple Poll app. How do you invoke this command using the Slack API? Using the python slack(er) API module : from slacker import Slacker # Using what's now called a "legacy token" slack = Slacker('my-token') slack.chat.post_message( '#test', '/poll "Do you prefer cats or dogs?" "Cats" "Dogs"', as_user=False, username="Poll Bot", icon_emoji=':question:', parse='full') The message just shows up in the #test channel as plain text, not converted to a poll. I tried using <!poll> instead of /poll in the message, as sort of implied in the message

I have integrated Slack API using cURL in my project. I want to send an image as my attachment. It works while sending full image path in image_url . But when I convert that image to base64 string and then pass it with image_url it doesn't go as attachment. So basically I want to post base64 string as my image attachment. Because I don't want to store the image on my server. {"attachments": [ { "fallback": "Required text summary of the attachment that is shown by clients that understand attachments but choose not to show them.", "image_url":"", "text":"", "color":"#7CD197" } ] } You can not

I am trying to implement a bot user in slack, but right now when i send a message to slack as a user, my bot gets more messages requests than it should. The event that I have added to my bot user is message.groups. I don't know if the events can interferer with the normal flow of the conversation. In this log USER REQUEST is what the user sent to the bot and BOT AWSER is what bot sends. As you can see slack is receiving the same message (event_time is the same) two times in a row, when i send just one message to the channel. Can someone tell me if this is my problem and not slack problem? What

I am trying to use Slack Custom command and not pretty sure how to use delayed messages since the Yoda Speak External API takes more than 3 seconds to respond. I have done the following: Sent the slack command /Yoda in my case and received the reponse_url . Used the following to post the following to the response URL. $data_string = '{"response_type": "in_channel", "text":"Checking,please wait..."}' ; $chs = curl_init(); curl_setopt($chs, CURLOPT_URL, $response_url); curl_setopt($chs, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($chs, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string); curl_setopt($chs, CURLOPT_SSL

I'm writing a simple slack bot which should execute other slack commands upon being called. Everything is up and running, however the slack commands this bot issues don't seem to be executed. For instance my bot posts /giphy kitten every hour and the message appears just like that in the channel (so the sending side seems to work), but the slash command itself isn't executed. If I post the same command into the same channel myself it works as expected. Are bots not allowed to execute slash commands? Erik Kalkoken Bots can use the undocumented API method chat.command to invoke slash commands.