This post is going to be short, but hopefully will help you avoid the troubles that befell me. I wanted to make a Slack bot using Python. “How hard can it be?”, I thought. “I’ve done it many times before”, I thought.
Think again.
The problem is that Slack has changed the way their APIs work. The old way is now referred to as a “classic app” with a “bot scope”, and that way is deprecated and you can’t really create apps like that now, so you have to do a whole other thing.
In this post, I will detail the steps necessary to create a simple bot that will listen for messages and reply to them. That’s all the scaffolding you’ll need (or that I needed) to create your apps, but I had to search for many hours to discover this information. Hopefully Google will be kinder to you and
