help with event listeners (channels and direct message to app or bot)

Description

Hello, I am having trouble with my slack app listening to events. I have this snippet of code:

// Does not work
        this.app.event('message.channels', async ({ event, context }) => {
            console.log('message channels');
        });
       
// This works (simple use case to validate I can listen to messages from channels.)
        this.app.message(RegExp('(.*?)'), async ({ message, say, event, payload }) => {
            console.log('message event');
        });

I double checked and I am subscribed to bot events for message.channels.

I would also like to know how I can subscribe to message.app_home. I am no longer seeing that event as an option inside of the events subscription.

Thanks and sorry if I missed something from the docs.

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[roger-king]

Gotcha! Thanks for answering my questions!

[seratch]

@roger-king Hi, I do understand this is a bit confusing but the event type in listener registration, it requires event.type in a payload, not the name in the documentation page. 🙇

As an example payload in https://api.slack.com/events/message.channels describes, the event.type for the subscription is "message". Subscribing message.channels in Slack app configuration page and having this.app.event('message', async ({ event, context }) => { in your Bolt app should work for you.

{
    "token": "one-long-verification-token",
    "team_id": "T061EG9R6",
    "api_app_id": "A0PNCHHK2",
    "event": {
        "type": "message",
        "channel": "C024BE91L",
        "user": "U2147483697",
        "text": "Live long and prospect.",
        "ts": "1355517523.000005",
        "event_ts": "1355517523.000005",
        "channel_type": "channel"
    },
    "type": "event_callback",
    "authed_teams": [
        "T061EG9R6"
    ],
    "event_id": "Ev0PV52K21",
    "event_time": 1355517523
}