Posting an updated answer as this method no longer works since Slack updated their API. Now you have to discover the user’s ID using users.list, or just looking it up in the Slack app on their profile. Then for a given userID, you mention them by setting the text as follows: <@userID>. The link_names argument … Read more
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
Slack..version 2.0.0 has jump to date feature. on selecting a particular date, the control goes to that particular date and then we can scroll Click the settings on the channel, and then “Jump to date …”
Here is the easiest way to manually find the slack IDs 1. Any channel ID Open the slack webpage (http://yourteam.slack.com) and then simply open the channel. The channel ID is displayed in the browser URL: 2. Any user ID To find a user ID you need to open your browser dev-tools console and inspect the … Read more
Referencing a channel within a conversation To create a clickable reference to a channel in a Slack conversation, just type # followed by the channel name. For example: #general. To grab a link to a channel through the Slack UI To share the channel URL externally, you can grab its link by control-clicking (Mac) or … Read more
Slack uses their own flavor of markdown: Slack Markdown Links work in the following way: <http://someurl|like this> Note: You can only do this via the Slack API and NOT just as a simple message you send via the Slack client. Message Builder Example More Info in the Docs