I know you can do in:#channel to only get results from a channel, but is there a way to filter out results from a channel? A lot of our channels are spammed with automated messages and it adds noise to the search results.
Slack – In Slack, is there a way to filter out search results from a specific channel
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Best Answer
The search feature allows you to exclude words from the result by putting a minus sign in front of a word.
Examples:
will only return messages containing
hot, but notpotato.To exclude a channel from the results use
searchTerm -in:channelName. Do not add a#in front of the channel name.