CODEWITHSUNDEEP
slackslack-api
mistakeNot
mistakeNot

Reputation: 783

slack app not responding to direct message

I want my app to respond to direct messages, but its not posting a reply and I can't find anywhere in the docs how to do it. This is what I have tried:

@app.event("app_mention")
def event_test(body, say, logger):
    logger.info(body)
    say("What's up?")

@app.event('message')
def respond_message(message, say):
    say("Hello there.")

@app.message('knock knock')
def respond_message(message, say):
    say("Hello there.")

It responds to @app mention, but doesn't respond to direct message...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1794

Answers (3)

Ashutosh Aswani
Ashutosh Aswani

Reputation: 1

The above answers are correct

Also in addition to above, if it is a private channel then you would also need the following permission :

message.groups

It can be added from Add bot user event under event subscriptions.

Upvotes: 0

Suyash Gaur
Suyash Gaur

Reputation: 2891

Can you confirm that your app have required scopes to listen to 'message' event ?

Required scopes for 'message' event:

    channels:history
    groups:history
    im:history
    mpim:history

Here are the details:

https://api.slack.com/events/message

Updating my answer for future use:
https://api.slack.com/apis/connections/events-api

Capturing events requires :

  1. Assign required scope for event
  2. Subscribe to event

Upvotes: 1

mistakeNot
mistakeNot

Reputation: 783

I figured it out ~ in addition of adding the required scopes, you also have to toggle settings in the App Configuration -> Event Subscriptions tab... Docs could use some improvement tbh.

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Upvotes: 4

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