Tool

Update message

Slack Update Message is an AI-powered tool that enables seamless updating of messages in Slack channels or direct conversations, enhancing communication efficiency. It leverages Slack's official API to modify message content dynamically, supporting formatted text and attachments.

Slack

Features

  • Update messages in public or private Slack channels, as well as direct messages with users or groups.
  • Supports editing message text with Slack's rich formatting options for clarity and emphasis.
  • Ability to update messages as the authenticated user or bot, ensuring proper user context.
  • Allows inclusion of JSON-based structured attachments to enrich message content.
  • Simple integration with Slack API using precise timestamps to target specific messages for update.

Benefits

  • Improve communication accuracy by editing messages without cluttering channels.
  • Enhance team collaboration through real-time message updates reflecting latest information.
  • Maintain a clean conversation history by updating instead of sending multiple follow-ups.
  • Customization of message appearance with formatted text and attachments increases engagement.
  • Streamline workflow automation by integrating message updates into larger AI and API-driven processes.

Description

Update a message. See the documentation

Parameters

5 parameters

NameTypeDescription
conversationrequiredstring

Select a public or private channel, or a user or group

timestamprequiredstring

Timestamp of a message. e.g. 1403051575.000407.

textrequiredstring

Text of the message to send (see Slack's formatting docs). This field is usually necessary, unless you're providing only attachments instead.

as_userboolean

Pass true to update the message as the authed user. Bot users in this context are considered authed users.

attachmentsstring

A JSON-based array of structured attachments, presented as a URL-encoded string (e.g., [{"pretext": "pre-hello", "text": "text-world"}]).

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