Slack ACTION
Get User Details
Use when the user asks who am I, what's my user ID, what's my username, which workspace am I in, or what's my email — this is the default identity lookup and the one to call first in any session. Returns user ID, name, email, timezone, profile, and workspace metadata. Other tools like Search and List Channels can then filter by your user ID, and Post Message can use it as the channel to DM yourself. Prefer this over Get Current User, which returns a much larger payload and is only needed for full profile detail (locale, status, admin flags). See the documentation
- Action
- Read only
- OAuth
- SDK
- MCP
IMPLEMENTATION
Call this tool
Connect a user's Slack account once, then configure and run Get User Details 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-get-user-details",
externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
configuredProps: {
slack_v2: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
},
})
console.log(result)curl -X POST https://api.pipedream.com/v1/connect/{project_id}/actions/run \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PD-Environment: production" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}" \
-d '{
"external_user_id": "{external_user_id}",
"id": "slack_v2-get-user-details",
"configured_props": {
"slack_v2": { "authProvisionId": "apn_xxxxxxx" }
}
}'// accessToken: mint a short-lived token with the Connect SDK — see the MCP guide
const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
{
requestInit: {
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
"x-pd-project-id": "{project_id}",
"x-pd-environment": "production",
"x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
"x-pd-app-slug": "slack_v2",
},
},
},
)
const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)
const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()
// listTools() hands your model this tool's input schema, so it can
// fill the arguments itself:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
name: "slack_v2-get-user-details",
arguments: {},
})SCHEMA
Inputs
Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|
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-get-user-details
- Version
- 0.0.8
- App
- Slack
- Authentication
- OAuth
- Read-only
- Yes
- Destructive
- No
- Open world
- Yes
- Source
- View on GitHub ↗