Slack

Creating Apps

Slack "Apps" refer to any kind of program that interacts with Slack.

There are five categories of apps:

• incoming webhooks (respond to external events)
• interactive components (buttons, ui)
• slash commands (providing actions)
• event subscriptions (responding to slack activity)
• bots (exchange information with users)

You also need to set the permissions correctly for the bot.

Link to create app: https://api.slack.com/apps/ACWAU18AD?created=1

Creating Bots

To create a bot, you will need the following information:

• What workspace will the bot live in?
• What username should the bot have?
• What is the app ID for this application?
• What is the API client ID?
• What is the API client secret?
• What is the signature of each webhook? (How does slack sign each of these messages?)

To get the API key, go to Settings > Basic Information from the app's app page (https://api.slack.com/apps/<app-id>).