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

With a basic understanding of Slack, you're now ready to take on some of the app's more advanced features, such as integrating bots and other applications into your workspace. We'll begin by taking a look at Slack's built-in bot, Slackbot, before addressing how to add other existing third-party bots to help automate your workspace.

In this part, you'll learn how to save time and avoid stress by allowing bots, external applications, and tools such as Zapier to do the work for you. Read on to learn how to automate everyday, tedious tasks, messages, and workflows with Slack.

In this section, we will cover the following chapters:

• Chapter 6, Your Workspace Slackbot
• Chapter 7, Integrating Your Favorite Tools
• Chapter 8, Automate Your Workflow with Zapier
• Chapter 9, Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandbox