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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

In this lesson, we the numerous endpoints of the Conversations API. If you want to manage channels with an app, this lesson will cover the most essential endpoints for handling those. This lesson covers the essential endpoints that help us manage channels in Slack.

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

1. `conversations.setPurpose`: This endpoint sets the purpose of a conversation.
2. `conversations.rename`: This endpoint renames a conversation.
3. `conversations.setTopic`: This endpoint sets the topic for a conversation.
4. `conversations.open`: This endpoint opens or resumes a direct message or a multi-person direct message.
5. `conversations.leave`: This endpoint leaves a conversation.
6. `conversations.join`: This endpoint joins an existing conversation.


# Change multiple channel properties 

To change channel properties, we access the following similar endpoints in the code widget: 

1. `https://slack.com/api/conversations.setPurpose`
2. `https://slack.com/api/conversations.rename`
3. `https://slack.com/api/conversations.setTopic`

Some of the important query parameters for these endpoints are the following:

Learn to use Slack API calls to specify different settings of conversations.


Set Conversation Properties

Learn to use Slack API calls to specify different settings of conversations.

Introduction

Chat Using the Application

Conversations Using an App

File Management

Users

Manage Reactions

Slack's Bolt Framework

Conclusion

Set Conversation Properties

Overview