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Learn how to use the Slack Web API and the Bolt framework to automate channels, chats, files, and more.

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Slack is a flexible instant messaging platform for organizations. It allows you to connect with your colleagues, share documents, and organize teams. It also allows teams to collaborate with images, videos, voice messages, and huddles across teams, time zones, and physical spaces. Slack’s API has allowed it to become a highly integrated productivity tool.

In this course, you’ll become efficient at automating chats, managing channels, and making interactive messages using the API. Learn how to share and manage files on Slack using the API. At the end of the course, you’ll use Slack’s Bolt for Python framework for building a small, custom application and integrating with Slack directly.

Automations with the Slack API in Python


In this lesson, we'll learn to delete regular and scheduled messages in Slack.

Let’s look at the following endpoints in this lesson:

1. `chat.delete`: This endpoint deletes a message.
2. `chat.deleteScheduledMessage`: This endpoint deletes a scheduled message.


Learn to use Slack API calls to delete messages.

Introduction

Chat Using the Application

Conversations Using an App

File Management

Users

Manage Reactions

Slack's Bolt Framework

Conclusion

Delete Messages