💡 Build useful apps, internal tools, simplified workflows, or brillant bots for just your team or Slack's millions of users.
- To get started, create a new Slack App on api.slack.com.
- Type in your app name
- 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.
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:writescope to grant your app the permission to post messages in channels it's a member of.
🎉 You should briefly see a success banner.
If you want to change your bot user's name, click on Bot User in the left sidebar and modify the display name.
- Scoll 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.
Next section: 02 - Building a message.
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