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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’ll cover the following endpoints from Slack’s Users API in this lesson.

1. `users.setPresence`: This endpoint manually sets user #key# presence:This is a flag with the value of either "auto" or "away". When it is set to "away" the user is shown as non-active. #key#.
2. `users.getPresence`: This endpoint gets user presence information.

Even though our application can set its presence with our current token, this isn't that useful because no user can see the application's "activity" status. It'll be a lot more useful if a user could manipulate their presence, and to do that, we'll need a #key# user token:This is a string of characters that third parties can use to authenticate a request on a user's behalf. #key#. To get the user token, follow the steps below:

1. Go to [Slack's API website](https://api.slack.com/apps) and click on your application.
2. Then go to the “OAuth & Permissions” tab on the left-hand sidebar.
3. Now scroll down and click the “Add an OAuth Scope” for the “User Token Scopes”.
4. Give the application the following scopes: `users:read` and `users:write`.
5. Click the "reinstall your app" on the yellow notification.
6. Click the "Allow" button and copy the "User OAuth Token".
7. Paste it in the code widget below.

Learn to use Slack API calls to manipulate presence.

Introduction

Chat Using the Application

Conversations Using an App

File Management

Users

Manage Reactions

Slack's Bolt Framework

Conclusion

Manipulate Presence

Overview