RTM is an outmoded API that provides WebSocket access to some of the same functionality as the Web and Events APIs.The Status API provides a programmatic way to monitor the health of the Slack product.Audit Logs APIs are tailored for building security information and event management tools.SCIM APIs are available for user provisioning and management.Admin APIs are a subset of Web APIs that are geared towards automating and simplifying the administration of Slack organizations.If you don't wish to expose a public, static HTTP endpoint to communicate with Slack, Socket Mode can help.īeyond the Web and Events APIs, we have a range of other niche APIs that are suitable for very specific types of apps. Read our Events API usage guide to learn how to subscribe to and handle events. We'll even retry when things don't work out. Tell us where to send the events you carefully select and we'll push them to your app securely. Build a Slack app that can react to those events usefully. Subscribe to the events you want from a range of possibilities. The Events API is a streamlined, easy way to build apps that respond to activities in Slack. Once you've figured that out, dive into the list of available methods. Our Web API usage guide will explain the basic process of interacting with these methods. With over 100 methods available to use, it's impossible to explain everything that's possible with the Web API, but we're sure there's one right for your app. The Web API supplies a collection of HTTP methods that underpin the majority of Slack app functionality. Read on to learn about our core APIs, and discover how to use them to make magic.

Every Slack app has access to a bag of tricks-a range of APIs that provide access to read, write, and update many types of data in Slack.

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