An example of using the Slack Api

SLACK-API-EXAMPLE.MD

Slack API Example: How to get a list of channels.

Create a new app

1. Go to https://api.slack.com/
2. Click "Start Building"
3. Create a new app

Figure out needed permissions

As a reference: conversations.list can be used with the permission channels:read.

Give your App permissions

1. Go to Features -> OAuth & Permissions
2. Navigate to Scopes add the permission, e.g. channels:read

Authenticate your app, (Install it into your workspace)

1. Go to Settings -> Install App

Get the OAuth Access Token

1. Go to Settings -> Install App
2. Copy the token xo......202

Use the token in the Tester for the call

1. Go to your needed call, e.g. conversations.list
2. Choose "Tester"
3. Paste token
4. (Optionally) Increase limit
5. Choose "Test Method"

Analyze output

1. Save the output to a dump.json file

2. Run it through jq to get desired information

   cat dump.json | jq .channels[].name > res.txt

   output json object has an entry channels. channels is a list. Each object in the list has an entry name.