Local Files
Learn to use Slack API calls to manipulate files in the workspace.
We'll cover the following
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:
files.upload
: This endpoint uploads or creates a file.files.list
: This endpoint list files for a team, in a channel, or from a user with applied filters.files.info
: This endpoint gets information about a file.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:
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