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pythonslack-apislack
turnip
turnip

Reputation: 2346

Can I send richly-formatted Slack messages as a Bot and not as a Webhook?

I started writing a Slack bot in Python and came to a halt when I couldn't find a way to send richly-formatted messages using the either of the two methods:

sc.rtm_send_message("channel_name", my_message)

sc.api_call("chat.postMessage", channel="channel_name", text=my_message, username="username", icon_url="icon_url")

where my_message = json.dumps({'attachments': [{...}]})

I now know that I can do this using the webhook approach but is it possible with the above method?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3085

Answers (2)

turnip
turnip

Reputation: 2346

I found out where I was going wrong.

I was passing my message to the wrong argument in the sc.api_call method.

I should've been passing it to sc.api_call(attachments=...) argument, not the text argument.

Upvotes: 1

Erik Kalkoken
Erik Kalkoken

Reputation: 32864

Both API (method chat.postMessage) and incoming webhook offer the same options for formatting your messages including markup and attachments.

Hint: if you want to use markup in your attachments, make sure to add the field "mrkdwn_in" and name the field your want to use it in or it will be ignored by Slack.

Example:

{
    "attachments": [
        {
            "title": "Title",
            "pretext": "Pretext _supports_ mrkdwn",
            "text": "Testing *right now!*",
            "mrkdwn_in": ["text", "pretext"]
        }
    ]
}

See here for full documentation.

Upvotes: 5

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