Slack API Tutorial: Post Slack Messages Using Python!

In this video I show you how to use Python and the Slack API to post messages to a channel in a Slack Workspace!

Dependencies that you'll need are:
Python 3
Admin access or permissions to create an app and enable incoming webhooks for a Slack Workspace

TOC:
Introduction: 00:00 - 00:31
Why is this useful?: 00:32 - 01:33
Different ways of posting messages: 01:34 - 01:55
Create a Slack App: 01:56 - 04:54
Let's get coding! 04:55 - 13:35
Testing out our script: 13:36 - 14:49
Conclusion: 14:50 - 15:36

[Shawn-crep]

Worked for me, thanks so much! I'm using this to send notifications to my phone (slack app), the possibilities are endless, from custom weather alerts to investment/trading notifications

[typeacademy]

Your tutorials are awesome, thank you! It's great that they're super clear and concise.

[gregroschel]

This is the best, clearest, easiest-to-follow Video in the Universe! Thank you.

[patrickmaloney]

Works like a charm! After I cleaned up a few typos...ugghh. Thanks for the great tutorial!

[carlossaldana]

You are amazing bro! This helped me so much at work. I didn't have any idea how to start. Thank you

[crazyhorse]

Excellent video to teach quick start to using slack api and alert app creation

[vipinmon]

How do you send messages to an individual slack instead of a slack channel using the bash command line?

[myothercarisadelorean]

We use Service Now and Slack at my company. Is it possible to create slack commands to pull the basic information from a Service Now ticket into a slack channel? Example: If I created /getTicket and it would then go out to the Service Now ticket and pull into the channel the ticket title, description, priority color, created date, etc etc.

[chrisshore]

This video just saved me SO MUCH TIME! Thanks!

[rewild.rewire]

Thank you so much! Very clear and easy to follow. Got it working the first try

[thej]

Amazing tutorial! my G!. Got me through an interview! :)

[thewebproject]

hi, how about vise versa where I want to receive post from specific channel to my web app or website? Is it possible?

[MrNkaliape]

can we send response to the incoming msg? one more qn: your script didnt cover on authentication? does free version of slack allow this?

[RR____RR]

Thank you for the tutorial, great work.

[michaelelleby]

Very good video.. I was looking at this today, as I am looking at firing the script from within an AWS lambda to get to an external slack channel..

[anasalraddadi]

Hi Thank you for the video I kinda want to do the same app you mentioned at first that monitor a system and sends crash rates. Any idea how can I do that?

[ezermello]

thanks man! This tutorial helped so much !!

[yogitagupta]

Hi, thanks for the video. I've created a slack app that posts open SNOW tickets, i want to add the functionality which shows the live status of the ticket . Like when the message is posted, the ticket is in "open" state and when someone resolves it later, i want it to get updated to "Resolved". I saw this feature in PagerDuty slack app. Please help

[ganeshdeshmukh]

Thanks for the video and ideas at the start.

[navneethravikumar]

Can we mention/tag someone in a slack channel using the python script?