Slack

Contents

• Input
• Steps to set up Slack API
  • A. Setting up “bot” as sender.
  • B. Setting up “user (you)” as sender.
• Parameter Settings
• Return Value

Input

1. Credentials

• • As a Bot
    - Incoming webhook URL.
  • As a User
    - User Token.

2. Message

3. File(file path) (only when sending as a User)

Steps to set up Slack API

A. Setting up “bot” as sender.

1. Login to your Slack account (either with browser or with app).
2. Open Slack Bot setup website (https://api.slack.com/).
3. Start building the slack bot and put app name and slack workspace.
   
   1. App Name shows up as the “sender” when bot is sending messages. You can pick any name you want.
   2. List of workplaces existing under your login account will show up automatically.
      
      
      
      
      
4. Select OAuth & Permissions and add bot token scopes.
       a. Add required scopes: calls:write, files:write, incoming-webhook
   
            
   
            
   
   
5. Select Incoming Webhooks and activate them. Add new webhook to your workspace.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Click [Copy] and save the Webhook URL information.
   
   

B. Setting up “user (you)” as sender.

7. Select OAuth & Permission and add user token scopes.

a. Requires user token scopes: files:write, chat:write

8. Install App to Workspace at the OAuth & Permissions page.

9. Save the OAuth Access Token which starts with xoxp-….

Parameter Settings

1. Sending message from Bot.

2. Sending message from User (you).

Return Value

• Select [Sting]
  • Success: User definable (default is 0).
  • Failure: Print error message but the bot will still run.