Slack
Slack is a channel-based messaging platform. With Slack, people can work together more effectively, connect all their software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work — all within a secure, enterprise-grade environment.
Integrate the Slack API with the Python API
Setup the Slack API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Python API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate Slack and Python remarkably fast. Free for developers.
Popular Slack and Python Triggers#
Emit new event when a new message is posted to one or more channels
Emit new event when a message was posted in a direct message channel
Emit new events on new Slack interactivity events sourced from Block Kit interactive elements, Slash commands, or Shortcuts.
Emit new event when a username or specific keyword is mentioned in a channel
Emit new event when a member has added an emoji reaction to a message
Popular Slack and Python Actions#
Write Python and use any of the 350k+ PyPi packages available. Refer to the Pipedream Python docs to learn more.
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
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}`,
},
})
},
})
Overview of Python#
Python API on Pipedream offers developers to build or automate a variety of
tasks from their web and cloud apps. With the Python API, users are able to
create comprehensive and flexible scripts, compose and manage environment
variables, and configure resources to perform a range of functions.
By using Pipedream, you can easily:
- Create automated workflows that run on a specific schedule
- Compose workflows across various apps and services
- React to events in cloud services or form data
- Automatically create content and notifications
- Construct classifications and predictions
- Analyze and react to sentiment, sentiment analysis and sentiment score
- Connect backends to the frontend with serverless functions
- Work with files and databases
- Perform web requests and fetch data
- Integrate third-party APIs into your apps
- Orchestrate data processing tasks and pipelines
- Create powerful application APIs with authentication and authorization
- Design CI/CD pipelines and Continuous Delivery services
- Connect databases like MongoDB and MySQL
- Monitor connections and events
- Generate alerts and notifications for corresponding events
Connect Python#
def handler(pd: "pipedream"):
# Reference data from previous steps
print(pd.steps["trigger"]["context"]["id"])
# Return data for use in future steps
return {"foo": {"test":True}}Related Videos#
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