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Slack agent connector

Slack is a business communication platform that offers messaging, file sharing, and integrations with other tools. This connector provides read access to users, channels, channel members, channel messages, and threads for workspace analytics. It also supports write operations including sending and updating messages, creating and renaming channels, setting channel topics and purposes, and adding reactions to messages.

Example questions

The Slack connector is optimized to handle prompts like these.

  • List all users in my Slack workspace
  • Show me all public channels
  • Who are the members of channel {channel_id}?
  • Get messages from channel {channel_id}
  • Show me the thread replies for message {ts} in channel {channel_id}
  • List all channels I have access to
  • Get user details for user {user_id}
  • What messages were posted in channel {channel_id} last week?
  • Show me the conversation history for channel {channel_id}
  • List channel members for the general channel
  • Send a message to channel {channel_id} saying 'Hello team!'
  • Post a message in the general channel
  • Update the message with timestamp {ts} in channel {channel_id}
  • Create a new public channel called 'project-updates'
  • Create a private channel named 'team-internal'
  • Rename channel {channel_id} to 'new-channel-name'
  • Set the topic for channel {channel_id} to 'Daily standup notes'
  • Update the purpose of channel {channel_id}
  • Add a thumbsup reaction to message {ts} in channel {channel_id}
  • React with 🚀 to the latest message in channel {channel_id}
  • Reply to thread {ts} in channel {channel_id} with 'Thanks for the update!'

Unsupported questions

The Slack connector isn't currently able to handle prompts like these.

  • Delete a message from channel {channel_id}
  • Remove a reaction from a message
  • Archive channel {channel_id}
  • Invite user {user_id} to channel {channel_id}
  • Remove user {user_id} from channel {channel_id}
  • Delete channel {channel_id}
  • Create a new user in the workspace
  • Update user profile information

Installation

uv pip install airbyte-agent-slack

Usage

This connector supports multiple authentication methods:

Token Authentication

from airbyte_agent_slack import SlackConnector
from airbyte_agent_slack.models import SlackTokenAuthenticationAuthConfig

connector = SlackConnector(
auth_config=SlackTokenAuthenticationAuthConfig(
access_token="..."
)
)
result = await connector.users.list()

OAuth 2.0 Authentication

from airbyte_agent_slack import SlackConnector
from airbyte_agent_slack.models import SlackOauth20AuthenticationAuthConfig

connector = SlackConnector(
auth_config=SlackOauth20AuthenticationAuthConfig(
client_id="...",
client_secret="...",
access_token="..."
)
)
result = await connector.users.list()

Full documentation

This connector supports the following entities and actions.

EntityActions
UsersList, Get
ChannelsList, Get, Create, Update
Channel MessagesList
ThreadsList
MessagesCreate, Update
Channel TopicsCreate
Channel PurposesCreate
ReactionsCreate

For detailed documentation on available actions and parameters, see this connector's full reference documentation.

For the service's official API docs, see the Slack API reference.

Version information

  • Package version: 0.1.13
  • Connector version: 0.1.5
  • Generated with Connector SDK commit SHA: c713ec4833c2b52dc89926ec68caa343423884cd