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Dennis Schaffer
Dennis Schaffer

Reputation: 620

How to send a direct Message from Bot to User in Mattermost

until now I have only ever used the bot to send messages to a channel. You looked like this.

{
  "channel_id": "my-id",
  "message": "Hello Channel"
}

How can I send a simple direct message to a user? The url for the direct Chanel is :"/api/v4/channel/direct" right? so try to send it. as reply i get this "Typo? are you missing a team_id or user_id as part of the url?," Thats okay cause i dont set a reciever User. But now? On Github i just read i need to set 2 ids? My id and the id from the reciever right? How i get the ID from another User?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 13360

Answers (2)

Dennis Schaffer
Dennis Schaffer

Reputation: 620

Here's another way, I had this solution

first check if the bot has the correct permissions!! This was my mistake

Then send a Post Request to url+"/api/v4/channels/direct Send Bearer Token in the header and as a body a Json

["bot ID", "reciever ID"]

Now you have to send a second post request. See here: "https://api.mattermost.com/#tag/posts/paths/~1posts/post" This is the same as a message to a channel.

As channel_id you take the "id" you got back from the previous request. Short way: URL "/api/v4/posts" + Bearer Token in the Header This Json in the Body: 

{
  "channel_id": "the return id from the first request",
  "message": "Hello Dude, how are you!"
}

Upvotes: 1

Max Prokopov
Max Prokopov

Reputation: 1336

You need to use a special channel form with an underscore like X_Y, where X and Y are user ids. User ids are not the same as user names.

payload={"channel": "6w41z1q367dujfaxr1nrykr5oc__94dzjnkd8igafdraw66syi1cde", "text": "Hello, this is some text\nThis is more text. :tada:"}

You can check FAQ page for the details https://docs.mattermost.com/developer/webhooks-incoming.html

Upvotes: 2

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