I had the same issue and wasnt sure why my bot was only listening to certain channels. Your bot will need to be invited to each channel by a user. Run this command within the required channel in the Slack app to do so /invite @<your_bot_name> Once in the channel they should then be able … Read more
Slack has no built-in support to render tables in messages. Your workaround options are: Draw table with chars in the message using a monospace font (Example) Draw table with chars and upload as plain text snippet with files.upload Render table as image and attach to a message or upload as image
If you need to do this dynamically via API you can use the channels.list method to list all of the channels in your team and channels.history method to retrieve the history of each channel. Note that this will not include DMs or private groups. If you need to do this as a one time thing, … Read more
For the application side Yes there is. In the window for slack, at the bottom left by your username, there is an up arrow. Click on that and you will see a preferences option. Once you are in Preferences, Click on Message Display. Within this option, you will find “Display real names instead of usernames”. … Read more
The correct format is <@userID> You will simply get the user ID from the event (in your screenshot, the channel_join event) { “type”: “message”, “subtype”: “channel_join”, “ts”: “1358877458.000011”, “user”: “U2147483828”, “text”: “<@U2147483828|cal> has joined the channel” } Update: (I have not checked the solution proposed in the edit) In the new Bolt SDK you can … Read more
Invite new users via API There is an undocumented method in the Slack API that allows you to programmatically invite new users to your Slack workspace: method name: users.admin.invite arguments: token, email, channels token: your slack API “test” token (required) email: email address, e.g. email=test@email.com (required) channels: comma separated list of channels the new user … Read more
As @timotree pointed out in a comment you should be able to initiate a call to a “channel” using: <team api url>/call/<channel id>. To automate this, have the call be initiated by a server you own. There you can simply set up a cron job something like 45 10 * * 1-5 <your script> >/dev/null … Read more
You should be able to create a reminder sending a message to @slackbot The message should be like: /remind [@someone or #channel] [what] [when] Here’s some examples: /remind @username to do something in 24 hours or: /remind @username to do something at 16:00
After a long time of investigations (~2 hours), I found an easy approach. For Caleb’s answer, I didn’t understand how to invite a Bot to the channel. Hence, I am posting this answer. Go to your Slack Channel and type the following as a message. /invite @BOT_NAME Eg: If your Bot name is SRE Incident … Read more
I quickly found out there’s someone already made a helper: slack-cleaner for this. And for me it’s just: slack-cleaner –token=<TOKEN> –message –channel jenkins –user “*” –perform