slack doen't sent POST request on button - post

I'm trying to implement following:
python script sends message to slack with button and payload,
user clicks on button in the slack message,
button sends POST with payload to Request URL (aws api)
Currently button doesn't send POST.
I forge message with following python script
slack_token = 'xoxp-1111-111-111-qqqqqq'
sc = slack.WebClient(slack_token)
sc.chat_postMessage(
channel="QQQQQ",
blocks=[
{
"type": "actions",
"elements": [
{
"type": "button",
"text": {
"type": "plain_text",
"text": "send post"
}
}
]
}
]
)
I added https://here.aws.api.amazonaws.com/default/lambda as "Request url" in the "Interactive Components" and "Event Subscriptions" of my slack app.
When I send message to bot POST request is sent to aws api.
When I click button POST request is not sent.
Tried with both tokens xoxp- and xoxb-

The problem is:
slack generates http request in strange way. Instead of json, it puts "blocks" into following structure:
{ ...... 'body': (byte[])\"payload=%7B%22type%22%3A%22block_actions%2 ...}
after decoding it is equal to:
{...payload={"type": "block_actions",...}
That isn't readable like json.
AWS API rejected these slack requests.
AWS cloudwatch helps to investigate problem.
To avoid this is necessary to enable "Use Lambda Proxy integration" option during method adding.

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I am attempting to build out a process that will do the following:
New contact lands in my CRM (Podio)
The CRM is triggered to send a POST containing a custom parameter to Twilio which will then initiate a flow
The Twilio flow will call my cell and prompt me to connect to the new contact
Once I press 1, it will take the custom parameter (new contact's phone number) and connect
me to them.
So far, I have been able to get 1-3 with no problem.
However, according to the the API documentation from Twilio I should be able to pass a 3rd parameter in the JSON body of my HTTP request containing custom "Parameters". When I attempt this the parameters aren't showing in the Twilio studio logs and thus I am unable to connect the call to the new lead.
This is the JSON body I am sending over to my Twilio Flow's API
{
"To": "+1xxxxxxxxx1",
"From": "+1xxxxxxxxx2",
"Parameters": {
"name": "example name",
"prospectphone": "+1xxxxxxxxx3"
}
}
When I view the logs in Twilio this is what I received.
{
"contact": {
"channel": {
"address": "+1xxxxxxxxx2"
}
},
"trigger": {
"request": {
"from": "+1xxxxxxxxx2",
"to": "+1xxxxxxxxx1",
"parameters": {}
}
},
"widgets": {},
"flow": {
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"data": {},
"channel": {
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I really can't figure out what I'm missing here? Has anyone run into this before? Is this something you can only do if you're using the SDK or does the additional parameter need to be passed in some other way?
It should be sent x-www-form-urlencoded.
From the documentation:
"Note: the JSON value must explicitly be passed as a string, not as a hash object. Depending on your particular HTTP library, you may need to add quotes or URL encode the JSON string."
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From My application sending message in slack using chat.postmessage with a button inside json request. but when user clicks on button from slack it's not returning response on request URL.
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Example:
{
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Note that this will only work for incoming webhooks defined via custom integrations, but not for those defined as part of a Slack app.
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info: ** API CALL: https://slack.com/api/channels.join
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I tried this
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})
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{
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"channel": "#channel-it-will-post-to",
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},
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As documented in https://api.slack.com/docs/message-attachments#link_buttons
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Update 04/2022
{
"blocks": [
{
"type": "actions",
"elements": [
{
"type": "button",
"text": {
"type": "plain_text",
"text": "View",
"emoji": true
},
"style": "primary",
"url": "https://flights.example.com/book/r123456"
}
]
}
]
}
Test on Slack Blockit Builder: Link

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