/conversations.create

POST

Initiates a public or private channel-based conversation

Request

Header Params

Body Params application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Responses

🟢200If successful, the command returns a rather stark [conversation object](/types/conversation)

application/json

Body

🔴500Typical error response when name already in use

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

curl --location --request POST 'https://slack.com/api/conversations.create'

Response Example

200 - response

{
    "channel": {
        "created": 1504554479,
        "creator": "U0123456",
        "id": "C0EAQDV4Z",
        "is_archived": false,
        "is_channel": true,
        "is_ext_shared": false,
        "is_general": false,
        "is_group": false,
        "is_im": false,
        "is_member": true,
        "is_mpim": false,
        "is_org_shared": false,
        "is_pending_ext_shared": false,
        "is_private": false,
        "is_shared": false,
        "last_read": "0000000000.000000",
        "latest": null,
        "name": "endeavor",
        "name_normalized": "endeavor",
        "pending_shared": [],
        "previous_names": [],
        "priority": 0,
        "purpose": {
            "creator": "",
            "last_set": 0,
            "value": ""
        },
        "topic": {
            "creator": "",
            "last_set": 0,
            "value": ""
        },
        "unlinked": 0,
        "unread_count": 0,
        "unread_count_display": 0
    },
    "ok": true
}

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

/conversations.close

/conversations.history