Slack Bot

Interact with Slack with your own bot user

Integrate the Slack Bot API with the Schedule API

Setup the Slack Bot API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Schedule API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate Slack Bot and Schedule remarkably fast. Free for developers.

Archive Channel with Slack Bot API on Custom Interval from Schedule API
Schedule + Slack Bot
 
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Archive Channel with Slack Bot API on Daily schedule from Schedule API
Schedule + Slack Bot
 
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Archive Channel with Slack Bot API on Monthly Schedule from Schedule API
Schedule + Slack Bot
 
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Archive Channel with Slack Bot API on Weekly schedule from Schedule API
Schedule + Slack Bot
 
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Create a Channel with Slack Bot API on Custom Interval from Schedule API
Schedule + Slack Bot
 
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Custom Interval from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow every N hours, minutes or seconds.

 
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Daily schedule from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow every day.

 
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Monthly Schedule from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow on one or more days each month at a specific time (with timezone support).

 
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Weekly schedule from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow on one or more days each week at a specific time (with timezone support).

 
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New Direct Message from the Slack Bot API

Emit new event when a message is posted in a direct message channel (Bot). To open a conversation, use the Pipedream Action "Send a Direct Message" to send a message from the Bot, or enable direct messages to the Bot in your App Settings (Settings->App Home->Show Tabs->Messages Tab), and send a direct message to the Bot.

 
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Archive Channel with the Slack Bot API

Archive a channel (Bot). See docs here

 
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Create a Channel with the Slack Bot API

Create a new channel (Bot). See docs here

 
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Delete File with the Slack Bot API

Delete a file (Bot). See docs here

 
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Delete Message with the Slack Bot API

Delete a message (Bot). See docs here

 
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Find User by Email with the Slack Bot API

Find a user by matching against their email (Bot). See docs here

 
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Overview of Slack Bot

Slack Bot APIs offer powerful and flexible ways to automate repetitive tasks
and integrate workflows from various services. With the help of these APIs, it
is possible to develop Slack bots capable of exiting and entering specific
channels as well as performing various actions requested from users.

A Slack bot can be used to automate specific tasks and carry out routine admin
jobs such as checking the team’s working time, organizing team meetings,
managing customer inquiries and so on. These bots can be programmed to inform
the members of the team when tasks are completed. Some of the examples of what
you can create using the Slack Bot APIs are:

  • Automated reminders
  • Productivity and time tracking
  • Data analysis and processing
  • Internal communication releases
  • Integrations with external tools and services
  • Conversation and inquiry management
  • Automation of customer service
  • Scheduling and tracking of tasks
  • Personalised customer recommendations

Connect Slack Bot

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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    slack_bot: {
      type: "app",
      app: "slack_bot",
    },
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://slack.com/api/auth.test`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.slack_bot.$auth.bot_token}`,
      },
      method: 'post',
    })
  },
})

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.