You're reading from Supercharge your Slack Productivity Discover hacks and tips for managing and automating your workflow with Slack and Slack bots

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569621

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Slack

Concepts

Real Time Communication

Author (1):

Moshe Markovich

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Slack Overview

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Slack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Slack Workspace

4. Chapter 3: Slack Features, Tips, and Tricks

5. Chapter 4: Onboarding Your Team to Slack

6. Chapter 5: Using Slack Externally with Live Chats, Guests, and Partners

7. Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots

8. Chapter 6: Your Workspace Slackbot

9. Chapter 7: Integrating Your Favorite Tools

10. Chapter 8: Automate Your Workflow with Zapier

11. Chapter 9: Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandboxes

12. Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

13. Chapter 10: Building Your Own Bot

14. Chapter 11: Buying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot

15. Chapter 12: Distributing Your App in the Slack App Directory

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is a Slack API?

For starters, what is any kind of API? An application programming interface, or API for short, is the way in which multiple applications can interact and obtain data from one another. Slack uses APIs for a broad range of niche apps across its platform to promote interaction and communication between all of your applications.

Slack APIs allow you to merge complex services with the communication platform to go beyond the integration Slack provides to customize your own. Chapter 6, Your Workplace Slackbot, began this understanding process by introducing us to Event API access, but what about the other features of Slack API? And what about the other types of API? There are many ways to use a Slack API within your workspace that we'll discuss throughout this chapter. To start, let's break down some of Slack API's key features.

Slack API's main features include the following: