01-creating-the-slack-app.md

Create a Slack app

💡 Build useful apps, internal tools, simplified workflows, or brilliant bots for just your team or Slack's millions of users.

• To get started, create a new Slack App on api.slack.com.
  1. Type in your app name.
  2. Select the workspace you'd like to build your app on. We recommend using a workspace where you won't disrupt real work getting done — you can create one for free.

Give your app permissions

Scopes give your app permission to do things (for example, post messages) in your development workspace.

• Navigate to OAuth & Permissions on the sidebar to add scopes to your app

• Scroll down to the Bot Token Scopes section and click Add an OAuth Scope.

For now, we'll only use one scope.

• Add the chat:write scope to grant your app the permission to post messages in channels it's a member of.
• Add the im:write scope to grant your app the permission to post messages in DMs.

🎉 You should briefly see a success banner.

If you want to change your bot user's name, click on App Home in the left sidebar and modify the display name.

Install the app in your workspace

• Scroll up to the top of the OAuth & Permissions pages and click the green "Install App to Workspace" button.

Next you'll need to authorize the app for the Bot User permissions.

• Click the "Allow" button.

🏁 Finally copy and save your bot token. You'll need this to communicate with Slack's Platform.

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