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Slack ACTION

Find Message

Find a Slack message by keyword or natural-language query across public and private channels. Returns matching messages with channel context, timestamps, and permalinks. Pass the returned message_ts to Reply to a Message to answer in thread, or to Get Thread Replies to read the rest of that conversation. Use Search instead when you need file results or want to restrict channelTypes; use this action when you want to order results with sort / sortDirection. User mentions come back in the canonical <@U123> form; echo it verbatim to post a real mention. Display names are returned separately as mentions, an array of { id, name } objects, omitted when no mention carried a name. Do NOT splice a name back inline: Slack renders <@U123|Name> as literal text, not a mention. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Read only
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Slack account once, then configure and run Find Message from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "slack_v2-find-message",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    slack_v2: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    query: "Query",
    maxResults: 10,
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Find Message inputs
Property Type Description
query Query string
The search query. Supports Slack search modifiers, e.g. from:@user, in:#channel, before:2025-01-01, has:link. Combine terms and modifiers as needed, e.g. budget in:#finance from:@jane.
Required
maxResults Max Results integer
The maximum number of messages to return
Optional
sort Sort string
Return matches sorted by either score or timestamp
Optional
sortDirection Sort Direction string
Sort ascending (asc) or descending (desc)
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
slack_v2-find-message
Version
0.2.3
App
Slack
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
Yes
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes