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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
Book Image

Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By: Moshe Markovich

Overview of this book

Slack is an online communication tool that allows workplace teams to collaborate efficiently, effectively, and securely. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. As a developer, you can use Slack to create tools such as bots that handle and maintain routine and time-consuming tasks. If you’re looking to set up a Slack workplace or build a Slack bot or app, this is the book for you. In this book, you’ll explore scenarios that show you how to set up a Slack workplace, build a Slack bot, or integrate your favorite tools. You’ll also learn how Slack can help you create a more collaborative, efficient, and coordinated work environment from any location. As you advance through the chapters, you'll find out how to manage your tasks and boost your business productivity by automating the trivial tasks. You'll also cover more advanced features such as using a Slack bot to complete tasks, including automating message responses and accessing personal reminders. By the end of this Slack book, you'll have learned how to use Slack effectively to communicate with your team and build bots and have gained a solid understanding of how the platform can help you to progress in your industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Slack Overview
7
Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
12
Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

What is a Slack API?

For starters, what is any kind of API? An application programming interface, or API for short, is the way in which multiple applications can interact and obtain data from one another. Slack uses APIs for a broad range of niche apps across its platform to promote interaction and communication between all of your applications.

Slack APIs allow you to merge complex services with the communication platform to go beyond the integration Slack provides to customize your own. Chapter 6, Your Workplace Slackbot, began this understanding process by introducing us to Event API access, but what about the other features of Slack API? And what about the other types of API? There are many ways to use a Slack API within your workspace that we'll discuss throughout this chapter. To start, let's break down some of Slack API's key features.

Slack API's main features include the following:

  • Sending messages
  • Creating shortcuts for users
  • Automating...