Invite all team members to a Slack channel

slack-invite-all-members-to-a-channel.js

/*
  https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/100820/how-do-i-invite-all-team-members-to-a-new-slack-channel#answer-104062
  Instructions: Just browse to the appropriate channel and paste 
  this script (below) into your Chrome/Firefox dev console and hit enter. 
  Then wait for the script to run until it completes. 
  It might take time as there is a limit to how many users may be invited at once. 
  The script will loop until all team members are invited.
*/
var foundAny=false;
function selectAllByLetter(remainingLetters) {
  console.log(remainingLetters)
  var letter = remainingLetters.pop();
  $("#channel_invite_filter").val(letter).trigger("input");
  setTimeout(function() {
    $(".channel_invite_member:not(hidden)").each(function(i, obj) {
        foundAny=true;
        this.click();
    });
    if (remainingLetters.length) {
      selectAllByLetter(remainingLetters);
    } else {
      setTimeout(function() {
        console.log("Inviting them all!")
        $('.invite_go').click()
      },400)     
    }
  },300);
}

function inviteAllUsers() {      
  foundAny=false;     
  setTimeout(function () {    
      setTimeout(function() {
        $('#channel_actions_toggle').click();
      },100)
      setTimeout(function() {
        $('#channel_invite_item').click();
      },200)
      //Enter each letter to trigger searches
      var remainingLetters = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","v","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","z"];
      selectAllByLetter(remainingLetters);
      if (foundAny) {
        inviteAllUsers();
      }
   }, 4000);
}

inviteAllUsers(); 

This script also doesn't seem to work reliably for channels with more than 30 members. I played around with it a bit, but no luck. Even if I run it multiple times, it always missed about half of the members. In the end I just used this: http://slack-invite-all.com/

for teams / channels with thousands of members:

// re-run every 10 seconds.  keep browser window open
setInterval(inviteAllUsers, 10000);

i wrote another one that won't land you in callback hell

function sleep(ms) {
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}
var letters = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","v","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","z"];
async function inviteAllUsers() {      
   for(var i = 0; i < letters.length; i++){
      await sleep(300);
    $('#channel_actions_toggle').click();
      await sleep(300);
    $('#channel_invite_item').click();
      await sleep(300);
     for(var k = 0; k < letters.length; k++){
        var word = letters[i] + letters[k];
        await sleep(300);
        $("#channel_invite_filter").val(word).trigger("input");
        $(".channel_invite_member:not(hidden)").each(function(i, obj) {
            foundAny=true;
            this.click();
        });
      }
      await sleep(300);
      $('.invite_go').click()
    }
}

inviteAllUsers(); 
setInterval(inviteAllUsers,600*1000);

also it seems that slack has updated this form so that 1 char input (a,b,c) won't be accpeted anymore.. my above script enumerates all the possible 2-char strings

@owocki Thanks, saved me from writing that up myself - worked like a charm! Do note that the above will invite all of your multi-channel guests as well, which may or may not be desired behavior.

Last one was still missing a few characters in the search..

function sleep(ms) {
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}
var letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
async function inviteAllUsers() {      
   for(var i = 0; i < letters.length; i++){
      await sleep(300);
    $('#channel_actions_toggle').click();
      await sleep(300);
    $('#channel_invite_item').click();
      await sleep(300);
     for(var k = 0; k < letters.length; k++){
        var word = letters[i] + letters[k];
        await sleep(300);
        $("#channel_invite_filter").val(word).trigger("input");
        $(".channel_invite_member:not(hidden)").each(function(i, obj) {
            foundAny=true;
            this.click();
        });
      }
      await sleep(300);
      $('.invite_go').click()
    }
}

inviteAllUsers(); 
setInterval(inviteAllUsers,600*1000);

Slack must have updated their frontend, as now jQuery is no longer included in the codebase.
Therefore, this no longer works. 😞

Slack must have updated their frontend, as now jQuery is no longer included in the codebase.
Therefore, this no longer works. 😞

And that Chrome extension 404s now. We are without hope!

You can use Channel Tools, which is a Slack app, to invite all users to a Slack channel. Because the app relies on Slack API as opposed to its UI, you can trust that it won't break like all other solutions until now.