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How to postMessage without any events

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How to use chat.postMessage Method without any Events?

For example, I want to send a message at 9 a.m every day.

There was no ‘body’ or ‘context’ to get a token.

Yes, I do not understand the slack API system well.

Would you like to help me?

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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seratchcommented, Jun 18, 2020

@whitehander Hello, thanks for asking a question!

To just call chat.postMessage or any other Web APIs, it’s not always necessary to use Bolt. Installing only @slack/web-api and writing a small script as guided here would be enough for such a case. Regarding the possible ways to trigger the script, you can go with any solutions such as cron jobs, scheduled events by Cloud services.

If you’re interested in having some interactive parts (e.g., buttons, select menu) in the messages, you need to built a backend service that receives incoming requests from the Slack API server. Those HTTP requests tell your backend user action events. Bolt is the best solution for building such a backend service.

So, if you would like to implement both in a single app, having extra internal (= not internet-facing) endpoints for invoking periodical operations (daily, hourly) in a Bolt app may be a reasonable solution. Here is the guide for how to add extra routes in a Bolt app: https://slack.dev/bolt-js/concepts#custom-routes

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PkMnCrystal91commented, Mar 23, 2022

@srajiang yeah!! Thank you so much. I was a bit confused, but I just figured out and it worked

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