/chat.postMessage

POST

/chat.postMessage

Sends a message to a channel.

Request

Header Params

Body Params application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Responses

🟢200Typical success response

application/json

Body

🔴500Typical error response if too many attachments are included

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

curl --location --request POST 'https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage' \
--header 'token;' \
--data-urlencode 'channel='

Response Example

200 - response

{
    "channel": "C1H9RESGL",
    "message": {
        "attachments": [
            {
                "fallback": "This is an attachment's fallback",
                "id": 1,
                "text": "This is an attachment"
            }
        ],
        "bot_id": "B19LU7CSY",
        "subtype": "bot_message",
        "text": "Here's a message for you",
        "ts": "1503435956.000247",
        "type": "message",
        "username": "ecto1"
    },
    "ok": true,
    "ts": "1503435956.000247"
}

Modified at 2023-08-15 05:39:45

/chat.postEphemeral

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