Send a message in a channel "only visible to you"

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Sending private messages in channels with the "Only visible to you" tag is called "ephemeral" and is now possible through the Slack API.

https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postEphemeral

(I'm not sure since when)

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Updated on October 22, 2022

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  • mathk
    mathk over 1 year

    I can not see in the slack API documentation the way for a bot to send a message in a channel that response to a user.

    The same way slackbot does reply when doing /help.

    Anyone can let me know if that is possible?

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    Notice the "Only visible to you". In the RTM manual they say that the messsage is of the same type as the event message. I don't see any attributes that would say it is visible only to a certain user.

  • Edgar Ortega
    Edgar Ortega over 4 years
    Please note: Ephemeral message delivery is not guaranteed — the user must be currently active in Slack and a member of the specified channel. By nature, ephemeral messages do not persist across reloads, desktop and mobile apps, or sessions.