Local Files

Overview

We can use Slack API calls to regularly upload and share local files on our system.

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

1. files.upload: This endpoint uploads or creates a file.
2. files.list: This endpoint list files for a team, in a channel, or from a user with applied filters.
3. files.info: This endpoint gets information about a file.
4. files.delete: This endpoint deletes a file.

Upload a file

To upload a file, we’ll access the https://slack.com/api/files.upload endpoint. First, we’ll go over how to upload a file using the files.uplaod endpoint. We’ll use the POST request to call this endpoint.

Some important query parameters for the files.uplaod endpoint are the following: