Reference

SLACKBOT_CHANNEL_CREATED

Fires when a new channel is created in your Slack workspace.

SLACKBOT_DIRECT_MESSAGE_RECEIVED

Fires when someone sends you a direct message in Slack, capturing all DMs across your workspace.

SLACKBOT_MESSAGE_REACTION_ADDED

Fires when someone adds an emoji reaction to a message in Slack. You can optionally filter by specific channels or emoji types.

SLACKBOT_RECEIVE_MESSAGE

Fires when anyone posts a new message to a Slack channel.

SLACKBOT_CHANNEL_MESSAGE_RECEIVED

Fires when a message is posted in any Slack channel, public or private, but does not include direct messages.

SLACKBOT_REACTION_ADDED

Fires when someone adds an emoji reaction to any message in Slack.

SLACKBOT_REACTION_REMOVED

Fires when someone removes an emoji reaction from a message in Slack.

SLACKBOT_RECEIVE_BOT_MESSAGE

Fires when a bot posts a new message to a Slack channel.

Add call participants

Automatically register new team members or clients who join a Slack call, ensuring they're tracked in your call records and communication logs.

End a call

Terminates an active Slack call and optionally records its duration for tracking purposes. Use this to programmatically end calls when they're complete or no longer needed.

Retrieve call information

Fetch detailed information about an active or recent Slack call to understand call participants, duration, and status without disrupting the conversation.

Create Slack Canvas

Creates a new Slack Canvas with a title and optional content, allowing you to build collaborative documents and rich content spaces directly within Slack for your team to view and edit together.

Delete Slack Canvas

Permanently removes a Slack Canvas from your workspace, eliminating all its content and history. Use this when you need to clean up outdated documents or free up space.

Edit Slack Canvas

Modify and organize content within a Slack Canvas using flexible placement options like replace, insert, and append operations. Ideal for maintaining and updating collaborative documents, project boards, or knowledge bases directly in Slack.

Get Slack Canvas (Deprecated)

Retrieves a specific Slack Canvas by its ID to access its content and metadata. This operation is deprecated; use the file retrieval operation instead for current functionality.

List Slack Canvases (Deprecated)

Retrieves a list of Slack Canvases from your workspace with options to filter by channel, user, or date range. This operation helps you discover and manage collaborative canvas documents shared across your Slack channels.

Create channel

Creates a new public or private channel in your Slack workspace for organizing conversations and team collaboration around specific topics or projects.

Find channels

Locate specific Slack channels by searching their names, topics, purposes, or descriptions to get the channel IDs needed for other Slack operations. This helps you quickly find the right communication space without manually browsing your workspace.

List all channels

Retrieve a complete list of all Slack channels your workspace has access to, including public and private channels. This helps you discover available communication spaces and identify the correct channel IDs for automation workflows.

Fetch conversation history

Retrieves messages and events from a Slack conversation in chronological order, allowing you to access past discussions and activity within a channel. This helps you review conversations, monitor discussions, and track communication history.

Invite users to a Slack channel

Add team members to a Slack channel by their user IDs, enabling quick onboarding of new collaborators to project discussions or team channels.

List conversations

Retrieves all channels and direct messages that a user has access to in Slack, allowing you to programmatically discover available conversations for automation or integration purposes.

Archive a Slack conversation

Archives a Slack conversation to make it read-only and hidden while preserving its message history, helping you keep your workspace organized and clutter-free.

Close conversation channel

Archives a Slack direct message or group conversation from your sidebar to reduce clutter and improve workspace organization while preserving all message history for future reference.

Join conversation by channel id

Automatically add your bot to a Slack channel so it can participate in conversations and provide support or information to team members. This enables your bot to monitor discussions and respond to messages in specific channels without manual setup.

Leave conversation channel

Removes your Slackbot from a specific Slack channel, allowing you to stop monitoring or participating in that conversation thread.

List team custom emojis

Retrieve all custom emojis available in your Slack workspace to see what visual assets your team has created for communication and branding. This helps you understand and leverage your workspace's custom emoji library for consistent team interactions.

Add a remote file

Share external files stored in services like Google Drive or Dropbox directly in Slack conversations, making them easily discoverable and accessible to your team without uploading them again.

Delete a file by ID

Permanently removes a file from your Slack workspace using its file ID, including all associated comments and shares. This is useful for cleaning up sensitive documents or managing workspace storage.

Delete file comment

Remove a specific comment from a file shared in Slack to clean up conversations or correct mistakes. This action cannot be undone once completed.

Download Slack file

Retrieve and download files shared in Slack channels, converting them into accessible URLs for external use or archival purposes.

Get remote file

Retrieve details about remote files that have been added to Slack through external integrations, allowing you to access metadata and information about linked files from third-party services.

List remote files

Retrieve and browse files stored in your team's remote file storage to locate documents, assets, and resources shared across your workspace.

List Slack files

Search and retrieve metadata for files stored across your Slack workspace using filters like user, channel, timestamp, and file type. This helps you quickly locate documents, images, and resources without manually browsing through conversations.

Share file public url

Generate a public URL for a Slack file so anyone with the link can access it without needing Slack access, making it easy to share documents externally.

Customize URL unfurl

Control how URLs appear when shared in Slack messages by customizing their previews or hiding them entirely using formatted content blocks. This lets you ensure links display exactly how you want without relying on automatic preview generation.

Delete a message from a chat

Remove a message you've posted from a Slack channel, private group, or direct message conversation. This helps you correct mistakes, delete outdated information, or clean up accidental posts without creating confusion.

Delete scheduled chat message

Remove a message you previously scheduled to post to Slack, allowing you to cancel outdated announcements or change your communication timing before the message is sent.

List pinned items in a channel

Retrieve all pinned messages and files from a specific Slack channel to quickly access important information your team has highlighted for reference.

Retrieve conversation replies

Retrieves all replies to a specific message in a Slack conversation thread, allowing you to view the complete discussion under a parent message. This helps you track conversations, gather feedback, and understand team discussions on a particular topic.

Add reaction to message

Adds an emoji reaction to a message in Slack, allowing you to quickly acknowledge, categorize, or respond to messages without typing a reply. This helps keep conversations organized and shows engagement at a glance.

Fetch item reactions

Retrieves all emoji reactions added to a Slack message, file, or file comment to understand team engagement and sentiment on specific content. This helps you track which posts resonate most with your audience and identify popular discussion points.

Create a reminder

Set up automated reminders in Slack that notify you at specific times using flexible scheduling options like exact times, relative durations, or recurring schedules.

Delete a Slack reminder

Remove a Slack reminder that is no longer needed or relevant to your team. This action permanently deletes the reminder and cannot be undone.

Get reminder information

Retrieve detailed information about a specific Slack reminder you've set, such as its content, timing, and status. This helps you track and manage your reminders without leaving Slack.

List reminders

Retrieve all active reminders set up in Slack, allowing you to review what tasks and deadlines you've scheduled. This helps you stay organized and manage your workflow without manually checking each reminder.

Fetch team info

Retrieve detailed information about your Slack workspace including team name, ID, settings, and member count to understand your workspace structure and configuration.

Retrieve team profile details

Fetches the profile field definitions configured for your Slack team, allowing you to see what custom fields and profile information are available for team members. This helps you understand the complete structure of team member profiles in your workspace.

Create a Slack user group

Organize your Slack team by creating a user group (subteam) to group members by department, project, or function for targeted communications.

Disable a Slack user group

Archive a Slack user group without permanently deleting it, allowing you to disable team channels or access groups that are no longer actively used.

Enable a user group

Reactivates a disabled user group in Slack, allowing it to be used again for mentions and permission management. Use this when you need to bring back a team group that was previously deactivated.

List all users in a user group

Retrieve all members of a specific Slack user group to see who belongs to a team, department, or project group. This helps you manage group membership and understand team composition without manually checking in Slack.

Find users

Search for specific team members in your Slack workspace by email, name, display name, or other identifying information to quickly locate users you need to contact or manage.

Fetch bot user information

Retrieves detailed information about your Slack bot user, including its profile, display name, and account status. This helps you verify your bot's configuration and understand how it appears to your team members.

Get team DND status

Check whether a team member currently has Do Not Disturb enabled, so you can respect their availability before sending urgent messages or notifications.

List all users

Retrieves all users in your Slack workspace along with their profile information and status. Use this to get a complete view of who's in your workspace for management and organizational purposes.

Lookup users by email

Finds a Slack user's profile information by searching for their email address, allowing you to quickly locate and interact with team members programmatically.

Retrieve user presence

Check whether a Slack user is currently active or away to determine their real-time availability before reaching out or assigning tasks.

Get conversation members

Retrieves a paginated list of active member IDs (not names, emails, or presence) for a specified Slack public channel, private channel, DM, or MPIM.

List user groups

Lists user groups in a Slack workspace, including user-created and default groups; results for large workspaces may be paginated.

List user reactions

Lists all reactions added by a specific user to messages, files, or file comments in Slack, useful for engagement analysis when the item content itself is not…

Lookup Canvas Sections

Looks up section IDs in a Slack Canvas for use with targeted edit operations.

Mark user as active

Tool to mark a user as active in Slack.

Open DM

Opens or resumes a Slack direct message (DM) or multi-person direct message (MPIM) by providing either user IDs or an existing channel ID.

Pin an item to a channel

Pins a message to a specified Slack channel; the message must not already be pinned.

Remove call participants

Registers participants removed from a Slack call.

Remove reaction from item

Removes an emoji reaction from a message, file, or file comment in Slack.

Remove remote file

Removes the Slack reference to an external file (which must have been previously added via the remote files API), specified by either its externalid or file ID…

Remove user from conversation

Removes a specified user from a Slack conversation (channel); the caller must have permissions to remove users and cannot remove themselves using this action.

Rename a conversation

Renames a Slack channel, automatically adjusting the new name to meet naming conventions (e.g., converting to lowercase), which may affect integrations using…

Retrieve conversation information

Retrieves metadata for a Slack conversation by ID (e.g., name, purpose, creation date, with options for member count/locale), excluding message content.

Retrieve detailed file information

Retrieves detailed metadata and paginated comments for a specific Slack file ID; does not download file content.

Retrieve detailed user information

Retrieves comprehensive information for a valid Slack user ID, excluding message history and channel memberships.

Retrieve user DND status

Retrieves a Slack user's current Do Not Disturb (DND) status to determine their availability before interaction; any specified user ID must be a valid Slack…

Retrieve user profile information

Retrieves profile information for a specified Slack user (defaults to the authenticated user if user ID is omitted); a provided user ID must be valid.

Revoke a file's public url

Revokes a Slack file's public URL, making it private; this is a no-op if not already public and is irreversible.

Schedule message

Schedules a message to a Slack channel, DM, or private group for a future time (postat), requiring text, blocks, or attachments for content; scheduling is…

Search all content

Tool to search all messages and files.

Search messages

Workspace‑wide Slack message search with date ranges and filters.

Send ephemeral message

Sends an ephemeral message visible only to the specified user in a channel; other channel members cannot see it.

Send message

Posts a message to a Slack channel, DM, or private group.

Set a conversation's purpose

Sets the purpose (a short description of its topic/goal, displayed in the header) for a Slack conversation; the calling user must be a member.

Set conversation read cursor

Marks a message, specified by its timestamp (ts), as the most recently read for the authenticated user in the given channel, provided the user is a member of…

Set conversation topic

Sets or updates the topic for a specified Slack conversation.

Set user presence

Manually sets a user's Slack presence, overriding automatic detection; this setting persists across connections but can be overridden by user actions or…

Share a me message in a channel

Sends a 'me message' (e.g., '/me is typing') to a Slack channel, where it's displayed as a third-person user action; messages are plain text and the channel…

Share a remote file in channels

Shares a remote file, which must already be registered with Slack, into specified Slack channels or direct message conversations.

Start call

Registers a new call in Slack using calls.add for third-party call integration; createdby is required if not using a user-specific token.

Unarchive channel

Reverses conversation archival.

Unpin message from channel

Unpins a message, identified by its timestamp, from a specified channel if the message is currently pinned there; this operation is destructive.

Update a Slack message

Updates a Slack message by timestamp.

Update an existing remote file

Updates metadata or content details for an existing remote file in Slack; this action cannot upload new files or change the fundamental file type.

Update call information

Updates the title, join URL, or desktop app join URL for an existing Slack call identified by its ID.

Update Slack user group

Updates an existing Slack User Group, which must be specified by an existing usergroup ID, with new optional details such as its name, description, handle, or…

Update user group members

Replaces all members of an existing Slack User Group with a new list of valid user IDs.

Upload or create a file in Slack

Upload files, images, screenshots, documents, or any media to Slack channels or threads.