Slack Webhook - Integration
With Slack, your flows can send various types of messages to your Slack group or to your Slack contacts, mainly for notifications for now. But we are already working on the Slack flow, and there will be more functions soon.
Set up Slack
To send notifications to your Slack group or to your personal channel, you first need incoming webhooks. Follow steps 1, 2 and 3 above and a window will pop up:
There are two ways to get an incoming webhook URL:
- from the Slack Incoming Webhooks app
- from your own Slack app
Get an incoming webhook URL from the Slack Incoming Webhooks app
Visit Incoming WebHooks (opens a new window), log in and:
click "Add to Slack".
Choose the channel you want your flow to send notifications to and click "Add".
Done! Here is the URL.
Get an incoming webhook URL from your own Slack app
A series of buttons is coming; click each one of them:
- Give the app a name.
- Select your workspace.
- "Create App"
- select a channel
- "Allow"
Finally, your URL appears!
Add Incoming Webhook
- paste the URL you got from either the first or the second way above.
- pick a lovely icon.
- give it a name.
- and click "Create".
Done! This is how it looks:
For more information, click -> Slack API
Send a notification to Slack
A common use of the Slack integration is to send notifications to Slack. For example, as a backup for your channel, set up a “Talk to Human” button. When the user clicks it, send a notification to a support channel in Slack or to the support team.