Schedule
Trigger workflows on an interval or cron schedule.
Integrate the Schedule API with the Slack API
Setup the Schedule API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Slack API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate Schedule and Slack remarkably fast. Free for developers.
Popular Ways to Connect Schedule with Slack#
Popular Schedule and Slack Triggers#
Emit new event when a new message is posted to one or more channels
Trigger your workflow on one or more days each month at a specific time (with timezone support).
Trigger your workflow on one or more days each week at a specific time (with timezone support).
Popular Schedule and Slack Actions#
Send a message to a public channel and customize the name and avatar of the bot that posts the message. See postMessage or scheduleMessage docs here
Send a message to a private channel and customize the name and avatar of the bot that posts the message. See postMessage or scheduleMessage docs here
Send a direct message to a single user. See postMessage or scheduleMessage docs here
Send a message using Slack's Block Kit UI framework to a channel, group or user. See postMessage or scheduleMessage docs here
Send a message as a threaded reply. See postMessage or scheduleMessage docs here
Overview of Schedule#
With Schedule - A trigger provided by Pipedream - You can easily build
automated workflows that run on regular times or intervals. Some examples of
things that you can build using the Schedule API include:
- Automated data retrieval from a third-party service, like pulling stats from
your Salesforce account on a set schedule. - Uploading new data sets to a database with a predetermined interval.
- Automatic emails to customers or leads at a certain time of the day.
- Automating data analysis based on a set schedule.
- Automatically optimizing social media postings according to a specified
timeline. - Updating webpages at a certain interval with newly available content.
- Re-running reports on a periodic basis.
- Refreshing a cache of data at a given frequency.
Overview of Slack#
With the Slack API, you can build all sorts of integrations and applications to
make your work life easier. Here are just a few examples:
- Automate posting updates to your team channel
- Create a bot to answer common questions
- Integrate with your existing tools and services
- Build a custom dashboard to track your team's progress
- Create a bot to handle scheduling and meeting requests
- And much more!
Connect Slack#
import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
slack: {
type: "app",
app: "slack",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://slack.com/api/users.profile.get`,
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.slack.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
},
})
},
})
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