Yes,this can be done. Instead of “#channel_name” use “@user” in the API. The user will receive the message from slackbot as we are using API and not a direct message from any other user. And if you want to post to that user as the authenticated user, use as_user= true. slack.chat.post_message(‘@to_user’,msg,username=”@from_user”) More details are at … Read more
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
So after a few tests, I found out that this is just a generic message of anything that fails at slack at this point. I have first my endpoint that was unreachable. So it was returning this message. I fixed that, used ngrok for tunnel so that I could debug and that is how I … Read more
If I understand your question correctly, you want to send direct messages to users in the app channel instead of the standard slackbot channel. In order to do that you need to Your app needs the bot scope and a bot user Open a direct message channel from your app with the user with conversations.open. … Read more
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
According to the Slack slash command documentation, you need to respond within 3000ms (three seconds). If your command takes longer then you get the Timeout was reached error. Your code obviously won’t stop running, but the user won’t get any response to their command. Three seconds is fine for a quick thing where your command … 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