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Configure Slack

In order to configure AccessBot integration with Slack follow the next steps:

  1. Go to https://api.slack.com/apps and create an app from a manifest

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  1. Enter the content of slack-manifest.yaml

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NOTE: Adjust the YAML config according to your needs

  1. Install App

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  1. Assign a channel and click the “Allow” button:

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  1. On the Basic Information page, scroll down to the App-Level Tokens section and click the Generate Tokens and Scopes button:

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NOTE: Use scope: connections:write

  1. Copy the generated SLACK_APP_TOKEN

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  1. On the left side, click OAuth & Permissions, and copy the Bot User OAuth Token:

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Use “App-Level Token” for SLACK_APP_TOKEN and “Bot User OAuth Token” for SLACK_BOT_TOKEN variables

Implementation details

  • Slack Bolt API imposes a rate limit. For that reason, users and channels are cached for 4 hours. If a user or channel is not found in the cache, the bot recreates the cache once.