Reading Slack Messages

Deprecated Book

The First Edition Slack Book is deprecated. Agents that have already learned this Book will continue to function. For all new automations, please use the BDK version of the Book instead.

To read messages from a Slack channel or user, you can specify the source and optionally a time range.

Examples

1. This example illustrates how to read messages from the "general" channel on Slack without specifying a time range.

read slack messages from "general"

1. In this example, the user requests to read messages from a user named "john.doe" that were sent within a specific time range, from March 1, 2023, to April 1, 2023.

the before time is "2023-04-01T00:00:00Z"
the after time is "2023-03-01T00:00:00Z"
read slack messages from "john.doe"