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Delve into automating chats, managing channels, and creating interactive messages with Slack's API. Discover file management and build custom integrations using Slack's Bolt for Python framework.

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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

# 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:

Learn to use Slack API calls to manipulate files in the workspace.

Introduction

Chat Using the Application

Conversations Using an App

File Management

Users

Manage Reactions

Slack's Bolt Framework

Conclusion

Local Files

Overview

Upload a file