Questions tagged [slack]

Slack stands as a unique cloud-based team collaboration platform.

How can you modify your Slack bot's name and image with Slash Commands?

I'm in the process of creating a unique slackbot with custom slash commands. According to the API documentation, it should be possible to pass a username parameter to change the bot's name. However, when I attempt to do so, the name remains unchanged. Is t ...

The functionality of the Hubot script is restricted to Slack conversations where I initiate a direct message with the

At this very moment, my automated Hubot assistant is functioning properly. When I send the following message via direct message to the robot in Slack: qbot !npm bower The response provided by the robot contains a link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/bowe ...

Tips on sending a successful HTTP 200 response for a Slack API event request in Python using the request module

I am trying to handle an event request by sending back an HTTP 2xx response using the Request method in Python. Can someone please provide guidance on how I can achieve this smoothly? The current issue I am facing is that I have tunnelling software runnin ...

What is the reason for Slack displaying the Node.js response JSON in its raw form?

When sending a JSON response from my Node.js server to a Slack App, I encountered an issue where the response is displayed in raw form as JSON instead of being properly formatted. To replicate the problem, here is the minimum code needed: server.js: ...

The postMessage function in my Javascript SlackBot seems to be flooding the channel with messages

I am currently setting up a Slack bot using JavaScript combined with several useful libraries. The main function of this bot is to execute a postMessageToChannel method whenever a user in the channel mentions the specific keyword "help." However, I am fa ...