You're reading from Supercharge your Slack Productivity Discover hacks and tips for managing and automating your workflow with Slack and Slack bots

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569621

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Slack

Concepts

Real Time Communication

Author (1):

Moshe Markovich

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Slack Overview

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Slack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Slack Workspace

4. Chapter 3: Slack Features, Tips, and Tricks

5. Chapter 4: Onboarding Your Team to Slack

6. Chapter 5: Using Slack Externally with Live Chats, Guests, and Partners

7. Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots

8. Chapter 6: Your Workspace Slackbot

9. Chapter 7: Integrating Your Favorite Tools

10. Chapter 8: Automate Your Workflow with Zapier

11. Chapter 9: Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandboxes

12. Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

13. Chapter 10: Building Your Own Bot

14. Chapter 11: Buying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot

15. Chapter 12: Distributing Your App in the Slack App Directory

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building and hosting your bot

When building your app, and therefore your bot, for Slack, you can choose to either create an app specifically for you and your workspace or one that can be made public through the Slack App Directory. Public apps become available to any user that wishes to download them to their workspace, whereas apps specifically designed for you and your team remain private to just you, the creator, or for you and any member within your workspace.

No matter the ultimate distribution of your app, creating your app requires a little more than simply inputting a name and workspace for it to act in. Your app will need elements such as APIs, webhooks, and Block Kit, but before adding all of those extra features, you first have to start with the basics: bot tokens, scopes, and OAuth.

Setting up bot tokens

After you've clicked the Create App button shown in the previous screenshot, you'll be redirected to the Building Apps for Slack page, where you&apos...