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i send json when using http post yes the web api accepts both application x www form urlencoded posts as well as application json refer to post bodies for more information how is the web api rate limited refer to our rate limiting guide for specific information on rate limits how do i work with files refer to our working with files guide for specific information on working with files how do i find a channel s id if i only have its name there are currently no methods to directly look up channels by name use the conversations list api method to retrieve a list of channels the list includes each channel s name and id fields many developers keep the list of channels in memory for swifter lookups poll the method occasionally to refresh your inventory or keep it updated with the events api how do i find a channel s name if i only have its id you can use similar instructions to the question above or you can use the conversations info api method to obtain a specific channel s information including its name do channel ids stay the same when the name of the channel changes channel ids remain the same even when names are changed do channel ids stay the same when moving between public and private as of september 2018 channel ids remain static even when a channel is converted between public and private use the conversations api to safely work with channels that have transitioned between public and private how do i retrieve a single message use the conversations history api method and a token with the channels history scope to retrieve a specific message in a public channel learn more about this approach events api how do i re enable event subscriptions for my app if your app s subscriptions are disabled due to exceeding the events api failure limits manually re enable them by visiting your application s settings if your app is part of the slack marketplace use your live app settings instead of your development app when should i use the events api and when should i use socket mode or the legacy rtm api choose the events api if you want to precisely scope the data you receive to just what your app needs you prefer or must use an inbound request model due to one of the following a your hosting service is not able to maintain an outbound websocket connection or b you prefer to scale your application on an inbound request model instead of maintaining multiple long lived websocket connections you re converting an outgoing webhook integration into something installable as a slack app you find the retry behavior reassuring for redundancy reasons choose socket mode if you re building an on premise integration or have no ability to receive external http requests you re working on a distributed or mobile application without a server backend you just prefer working with websockets that s cool you want data feed redundancy by opening additional websocket connections you want messages to be delivered to you in real time finally choose the legacy rtm api only if you have very specific needs that only the rtm api solves you already have a classic app as they can longer be created you are okay with your app not working in the somewhat near future as classic apps are slated to be deprecated how do i make my bot appear active and present the answer depends on whether you re using the events api with or without the legacy rtm api with the events api you must toggle your presence by managing your app s bot user config with the legacy rtm api your bot is marked active while connected to a websocket therefore the presence of the bot depends on whether you are using the legacy rtm api the bot is online when it s connected through the websocket or it s always online when you turn this setting on refer to bot presence for more information socket mode socket mode allows you to use the events api and interactive features of the platform without exposing a static http endpoint to receive payloads instead you use the websocket protocol and generate a url at runtime the legacy rtm api is another way of connecting your application to slack for most applications that can t use a static http endpoint socket mode is preferred over rtm legacy rtm api can i start using the rtm api most likely not classic apps can no longer be created and the newer granular permissions apps cannot access the rtm api try the events api can i keep using the rtm api you can but not forever legacy classic apps are set to be deprecated november 2026 without those legacy apps there will be no way to access the rtm api try the events api instead app approvals how does my app get approved for the slack marketplace refer to the following guide slack marketplace review guide what happens if i make changes to an application that has been approved for the slack marketplace if you need to update your approved app to request new oauth scopes or to include new features find your application s settings page at https api slack com apps any changes you make here will not affect the published app once you re ready to apply these changes to the published app you ll need to resubmit it for review what kind of changes to my app will require being reviewed again if you ve submitted your app to the slack marketplace but need to make changes to how your app or bot is described to the integration types packed into your app or to request additional permissions you ll need your app to be reviewed again use the beta application corresponding to your submitted slack app to make modifications to any of these features such as requesting new oauth permission scopes changing your message button action urls changing your slash command execution urls other details about your slash command changing your events api subscription urls or subscriptions changing your bot user s username changing your app s oauth configuration changing details about how your application is presented in the slack marketplace application description contact information application icon policy website urls your client secret and signing secret may be regenerated as needed without requesting further review do i need to submit my slack app to the slack marketplace if i don t want to no only submit your app to the slack marketplace if you want your app to be discoverable and installable from the slack marketplace if you don t submit your app we won t display it there but it will be installable by any workspace you give the authorization url to scaling your app how do i avoid long response times and timeouts while working on behalf of large workspaces if using the conversations list api method use the exclude_members parameter to trim long membership lists from each channel object team vs workspace why is an id for a workspace is called team_id not workspace_id our bad we used to overuse the term team which could mean two different things the people you talk to as well as the slack workspace the place you do work now we use workspace for all the slack workspaces however our api remains the same as before wherever you see some objects containing team_id it really is an id for the workspace in the api world we use the two terms interchangeably transitioning from irc xmpp gateways how do i build an irc or xmpp gateway for myself using the api building your own gateway for personal use is an undertaking the part of the gateway that reads from slack should either connect to the legacy rtm api over a websocket or listen for events using the events api use the web api to post messages and perform channel operations the xmpp or irc part of the gateway is its own adventure to explore choose the token type that works best for you bot user tokens work well if your user is a bot but poorly if your user is you properly scoped user tokens work best as they model your own relationship to slack the client scope is useful but overly broad and not suitable for an app distributed on the slack marketplace using your user token to post as yourself when posting messages with the chat postmessage api method is best apps operating as a gateway should never distribute their api keys secrets or tokens workflow builder is it possible to add a workflow to multiple channels while you cannot add a single workflow to multiple channels you can download a workflow file import it into slack and update the channel in which it triggers to download a workflow file within workflow builder click on the three dots beside the workflow you would like to download and click download workflow file is it possible to have workflows branch into different paths based on answers yes as of july 2025 adding conditional branching conditional logic to workflows is available to slack workspaces on business or enterprise plans refer to this article in the slack help center for more details apps created with the deno slack sdk developers how do i set up my development environment head to the quickstart guide to use our automated installer script or download the latest version of the slack cli and follow instructions to install it manually if you have installed the slack cli previously and have an older version note that the minimum required slack cli version for an enterprise org as of september 19th 2023 is v2 9 0 if you attempt to log in with an older version you ll receive a cli_update_required error from the slack api run slack upgrade to get the latest version using a combination of your favorite text editor the slack cli and the included deno slack sdk you ll develop using typescript with a deno runtime environment which hosts are involved in the creation and execution of apps created with the slack cli apps created with the deno slack sdk are closely tied to specific language runtimes and sdks as you install and utilize your developer tools you should expect requests from your network to the following non exhaustive list of hosts api slack com configuration information and documentation resources downloads slack edge com where binaries and other static resources are hosted by slack slack com where most of the individual apis reside called by the slack cli and your app slackb com general logging for your triggers functions and workflows slackd com where we send information about errors warnings and other special conditions deno land where the typescript runtime deno resolves retrieves dependencies and versions jsr io where additional runtime packages and related dependencies are registered how can two or more developers collaborate on an app refer to team collaboration how do i build a slash command in apps created with the deno slack sdk workflows can be started manually by users via link triggers there are multiple ways to invoke a link trigger and one of them is with a keystroke via the shortcut menu in other words you can use a slash command to invoke a link trigger that will kick off a workflow which languages are supported in slack s managed infrastructure at this time apps deployed to slack s managed infrastructure are built with typescript in a deno runtime environment what s the difference between running and deploying an app when you use slack run the local development version of your app connects to slack via socket mode directly from where you re developing as you use slack or other tools to interact with your app s triggers workflows and functions data is sent back and forth against your latest saved code use this while you re still tweaking things your development app is generally only shared with other collaborators though you can test the full range of trigger options anyway when you use slack deploy the fine computer instructions you ve written are packaged up and deployed to slack s managed infrastructure as users interact with your app data is swiftly and securely sent back and forth between slack servers treat this instance of your app with care especially as your userbase grows the local and deployed environments have different triggers associated with them triggers you create in a local context will not automatically be created in a deployed context once your app is deployed can i list my app in the slack marketplace currently automations apps are not eligible for listing in the slack marketplace how do i call a third party api an example of how to do this is shown in the github issue tutorial but the long and short of it is as follows store api credentials as local environment variables in the github tutorial for instance your env file could look like this github_name slackbotsbestbuddy github_token abc123def use the env context property to call environment variables from within your function import definefunction schema slackfunction from deno slack sdk mod ts export const myfunctiondefinition definefunction callback_id my_function title my function source_file functions my_function ts input_parameters properties required output_parameters properties required export default slackfunction myfunctiondefinition async inputs env add this const headers authorization bearer env github_token content type application json try const endpoint https api github com users repos const response await fetch endpoint method get headers if response status 200 in the case where the api responded with non 200 status const body await response text const error failed to call an api status response status body body return error do cool stuff with your repo info here const repos await response json return outputs catch err const error failed to call github api due to err return error that s all when you run your app it will use the environment variables stored within your env file you won t be using your env file when your app is deployed nor should you ever commit that file to source control so the real power of environment variables is seen when you use the env slack cli helper once your app is deployed using slack deploy add your environment variable with the following command slack env add github_token abc123def if your token contains non alphanumeric characters wrap it in double quotes environment variables added via the slack env add command can be accessed via the env slack cli helper which also allows you to update and remove them can i import additional libraries and sdks yes you can to use a deno third party module deno imports modules using urls you can see how we do this for a test file in the deno github functions sample app functions create_issue_test ts import as mf from https deno land x mock_fetch 0 3 0 mod ts how can i use the slack cli to set up a continuous integration and continuous delivery ci cd pipeline the slack cli is commonly used in local development usually in an interactive mode with prompts but can also be used for automating testing and deployments done without interactivity by using flags by way of a ci cd pipeline running this type of automation requires authorization with a service token refer to ci cd authorization for more details you ll also need to accommodate requests from your network to a variety of hosts refer to which hosts are involved in the creat...