I wonder if there is a way I can request a bot by the link like 'https://t.me/bot_name?start=XXX', and get the bot's answer? I've searched for it for a long time, but found no way.to solve it.
I've tried sending to the bot a '/start=XXX' message, but it returns a different answer from the manual operation.
I made a slack app that has an incoming webhook that basically posts to a slack channel with an image or video. Images work fine, however when trying to use a video block it fails. I've narrowed it down to the "video_url" property that, for now, points directly to an s3 link to the video file. If i change that to a youtube link (for example) it works fine.
In the block kit tool, i get an error stating "video validation failed, bot scope missing", however my bot scope has all the required scopes. I also added these scopes to the User Token Scopes as well. I also added the s3 domain to my app unfurl domains.
Block kit still gives me the error and any time i make a request to the incoming webhook, all i get is a bad request with "invalid_blocks"
I feel like i'm just missing some small piece of the puzzle
i contacted slack and got it sorted, kinda. They said there was an issue using video blocks with a webhook, but the postMessage api call worked fine
I'm starting out with the Slack API and trying to just get a list of messages.
Here are my steps:
Created a Slack app and gave it channels:read and channels:history scope (also re-installed it)
Queried the list of channels with conversations.list (this worked fine)
From the output of conversations.list, I found a channel that I use and copied the id
Used the conversations.history api with the channelid from step 3
Result:
{ "ok": false, "error": "not_in_channel" }
I'm not at all sure what is happening here. I definitely have messages in the channel, and the documentation page for that api does not say anything about this "not_in_channel" error code.
What am I doing wrong?
After a long time of investigations (~2 hours), I found an easy approach. For Caleb's answer, I didn't understand how to invite a Bot to the channel. Hence, I am posting this answer.
Go to your Slack Channel and type the following as a message.
/invite #BOT_NAME
Eg: If your Bot name is SRE Incident Manager the command would be as follows.
/invite #sre_incident_manager
As soon as you start typing #, Slack will automatically suggest. So it becomes easy. For this, the Bot needs to be added to your Slack Workspace.
PS: Original answer.
The error not_in_channel has the exact meaning, your custom Slack app should be added to the channel.
Exact solution 1
To resolve the error, in the Web Slack interface:
Open channel settings
Click on the Integrations tab
Click Add apps and find your custom app.
Slack app might have different interface, see Iryna Vernik's answer.
Alternative solution 2
Give access to the bot to all channels by adding workspace wide scope, for example, chat:write.public. Depends on your needs and security requirements.
Alternative solution 3
To access the channel chat from API specify Incoming webhook. Slack will generate a unique URL with the token per each channel. Only convenient for a few channels.
This error arises when you are using the bot oauth token and the bot is not invited to the channel. To solve this you need to
Invite the bot(slack app) to join the channel.
Use the OAuth Access Token instead
To add Bot to your channel you need to write /invite #Bot_name in the slack channel
I also didn't understand how to invite a Bot to the channel. Way that was proposed by Caleb and Keet was not clear for me or not working. From my side, 'invite' work after
open channel
in Details tab, choose a 'More'clause
in dropdown menu, chouse an 'add app'
in pop-up look for you app (bot)
Also i was use Bot User OAuth Access Token, because i need this functionality in private channel (additionaly, you should add for bot groups:history scope)
FOr me, instead of invite a user/bot, I invite the app.
I'm getting started with the Slack API as well, and I've come to realize that not_in_channel simply means that the user/bot you are using the token for hasn't joined that particular channel you're trying to perform an action on.
Think of it this way: if you're using Slack on the web-browser or web-app, you wouldn't be able to post a message on a channel you haven't either joined or was invited to.
☝️ You'll also never run into this issue through the Slack UI/UX because you're not even able to access the channels UNTIL you are invited or join it.
Click to see png example of a slack message stating my bot being added to a channel
However, because we're using the API we can essentially skip some steps, and in this case we skipped the step where a user/bot has joined the channel before doing the action we're trying to perform (writing a message, grabbing information, etc).
💪 How to address this
There's probably plenty of ways to do it that I'm not versed in, but if you're just concerned about a specific channel or two without the concern of scaling to x channels I'll list the way that worked for me.
📇 /invite Slash Command
As others have mentioned, putting /invite in the message box lets you use Slack's slash command shortcut to add users. What's important is this way also allows us to invite bots to the channel.
Putting "#" triggers Slack to start auto-suggesting, which is why it then becomes easy to find your bot name in the list.
Click here to see screenshot example of the /invite command with #bot_name_here
Hope this helps answer people's question on why it's happening, and thank you to the original posts that got me out of my initial mess. 🙏
As all others said, you need to join each channel.
The bot can join channel programmatically by using API below:
https://api.slack.com/methods/conversations.join
Don't forget to add permission of conversations.join
When responding to a slash command with a string that includes a channel ID like <#C3989289>, the response in Slack shows a deep link to that channel "#general.
When I do the same for a direct message or IM, the response in Slack shows "#deleted-channel" and it's not a link.
I don't see anything in the docs about why this: https://api.slack.com/docs/message-formatting#linking_to_channels_and_users
Slack has confirmed that their system is designed in this way to protect private channels/direct messages from being made aware to users, even if the recipient of the message containing the deep link does belong to that particular channel/DM.
I'm using eventbrite.com, and I'm trying use the rest API to get all the previous events for my user (organizer in eventbrite). I am expecting to get events that have occurred in the past.
I'm using the following url:
https://www.eventbrite.com/xml/event_search?organizer={MyOrganizerName}&app_key={MyAppKey}&date=past
However, I get nothing returned. ever. I am sure that have some events that happened in the past.
I am successfully getting events in the future. so there's nothing wrong with my client\app key\spelling\whatever.
With the newer Eventbrite APIv3 the endpoint changed to /users/me/owned_events The API comes with an API Explorer, which lets you see detailed debugging information for any endpoint just by going to it in a web browser.
Paste this url with your token id into your browser to get all past events:
https://www.eventbriteapi.com/v3/users/me/owned_events/?token=YOURTOKENID
The result is a paginated response of all the events your user account is organizing.
The event_search method is meant to return publicly available information about upcoming events only.
Try user_list_events instead:
https://www.eventbrite.com/xml/user_list_events?app_key={YOUR_APP_KEY}&user_key={YOUR_USER_KEY}&event_statuses=ended
You also have the option of creating an Organizer Profile Page, allowing you to group similar events together. The organizer_list_events API call may be useful for folks who are using that feature.