slack
I'm using Slack with Ubuntu Linux 16.04. While I enjoy working with Slack, there is this annoying Slackbot, which keeps repeating the same messages all the time (for example: 'User is in Do not Disturb mode…').
How can I tell Slackbot to stuff off forever?
There's an undocumented API endpoint for this: emoji.add (and its little buddy emoji.remove).
emoji.add POST parametersAuthorization: Bearer header) (There's an open GitHub issue that claims you can't use xoxb tokens, only xoxs ones.)data)my-party-parrot)emoji.remove POST parametersAuthorization: Bearer header)my-party-parrot)Here's what it looks like in Postman:
In CURL, the call would look like this:
curl -X POST \
https://slack.com/api/emoji.add \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer [REDACTED] \
-H 'content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW' \
-H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36' \
-F mode=data \
-F name=my-party-parrot \
-F image=@/home/curtis/Downloads/some-file.jpg
Everything that I know about this comes from from Jack Ellenberger's ":slack_on_fire:" article and his emojme library.
While this isn't the most elegant place for feature information, according to this Twitter thread involving SlackHQ, there is no way to limit Slackbot at the channel level.
Edit: this may not suit your needs but there is a Chrome extension for filtering bot messages at the channel level. I haven't tried it so I can't personally vouch for it. If you really need this Slackbot feature then one option is to fork the extension on Github and modify the code so that only certain Slackbot messages are filtered.
Best Answer
It looks like you can't disable Slackbot for all channels, according to Slack support.
But you can at least disable the channel suggestions by selecting the option of "No, Turn Them Off" under these suggestions, or go to Preferences > Advanced > Other Options and untick the option to send these occasionally.