Retrieve Slack Messages
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Retrieve Slack channel messages.
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Updated: Jul 01, 2024
Description
Clone Slack retrieve messages tool and add your own api key, channel name and number of messages you want to retrieve, and it'll go get them.
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Retrieve Slack Messages
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Click on the hamburger menu.
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Now, click on "Tools".
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Click on "New".
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Click on the search bar and search for "Slack".
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Click on "Modify" underneath the "Slack: Retrieve messages" tool.
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Click on "Clone to edit".
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After that, click on "Continue".
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Click on the Cog icon in the left sidebar, then scroll down to the custom API key section.
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Click on "Add custom API key".
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Give your API key the name "slack". It must be called that and nothing else.
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11. Paste in your Slack API key (generated when you created your slack bot, in the OAuth & Permissions section).
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Click on "Save".
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After, click on "View all & edit inputs".
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14. Enter the name of the channel you want to retrieve messages from. Make sure your bot has already been added to that channel with “/invite @Your Bot Name”.
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15. Click on the small cog icon at the bottom-right of the channel input.
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Next, click on "Set current value". This will make the channel name you entered the default channel this tool retrieves messages from, if you don't give it a different one when running.
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Click on "Run all".
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