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Slack

The slack-flows library brings the support of most frequently used Slack APIs to the Flows Network platform.

Trigger​

A Flows Function or bot, built with this library, waits for an event to occur on Slack, such as a new message in a channel, then kicks into action. The listen_to_channel() function is used to register a listener for incoming messages in a specific channel.

Action​

Once the function receives a trigger, it performs an action. In our basic example, the function sends a response message to the channel upon receiving a new message. The action is defined within the callback function provided to listen_to_channel().

Here is a minimal example:

use slack_flows::{listen_to_channel, send_message_to_channel};

#[no_mangle]
pub fn run() {
    listen_to_channel("myworkspace", "mychannel", |sm| {
        send_message_to_channel("myworkspace", "mychannel", format!("Hello, {}",
        sm.text))
    }).await;
}

This code shows a basic bot that listens for incoming messages in a specific channel mychannel of a given workspace myworkspace and responds with a greeting message.

API Reference​

https://docs.rs/slack-flows/