The last step in setting up Slack is installing the Slack bot we just configured to our Slack workspace. Select the app_mention from the dropdown menu under the 'Subscribe to Bot Events” tab.

Input the URL of the server created above as the value for the request URL field. In the home page of the Slack app we created above, navigate to the event subscriptions page and toggle the “Enable Events” button. After deploying the above server, you can continue to set up the Slack bot. This server can then be deployed using a local tunneling tool like Ngrok or Hookdeck CLI. Slack also requires confirmation that you have control over the URL, and asks you to echo the challenge request parameter they send.īelow is an implementation of the logic of the web server that Slack will send webhook notifications to, written in NodeJS.Ĭonst bodyParser = require('body-parser') Īpp.use(bodyParser.urlencoded()) Īpp.listen(3000, () => console.log(`App is running on port 3000`)) This link is where Slack will send notifications when the event subscribed to is triggered. After creating the Slack app, it’s time to hook into Slack webhooks to receive notifications when your bot gets mentioned in a Slack channel!īefore you can subscribe to a specific event, you need to provide Slack with a URL. Next, write the name of the app in the Popup menu, select the workspace the bot will be associated with, and save. To get started creating this feature, head over to the Slack API dashboard and create a new Slack app by clicking the “Create A Custom App” button at the top of the page. Once a user on our workspace mentions the bot, the goal is for it to trigger a Netlify deploy. The Slack bot is crucial to this service.

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