Only channels you are a member of will appear in this list. If you can't find your channel, click the Load More button or switch to the Custom tab and enter the channel's ID. Once live, the trigger will work even if you are not a member of the channel.

Specify text of the message to send. Check out the formatting help doc for advanced options.

If you choose no, this message will appear to come from you. Direct messages are always sent by bots.

Specify the bot name which appears as a bold username above the message inside Slack. Defaults to Zapier. When using Schedule At, this field will be ignored by slack.

Either an image url or an emoji available to your team (surrounded by :). For example, https://site.com/icon_256.png or :robot_face:. When using Schedule At, this field will be ignored by slack.

If you choose yes, a link to this Zap will be added to the end of the message, making it easy for you and your team to edit the Zap with one click.

If specified, this will upload the given image URL to Slack and attach it to the message separately.

Should Slack try to automatically expand links in this message? For example: turn a YouTube link into a playable widget.

If no, any usernames and channels mentioned won't be linked (or mentioned). Also affects @channel and @group. Unfortunately, @here notifications cannot be sent by Zapier.

Schedule the message to be posted later. Cannot be more than 120 days in the future. If you do schedule a message, rather than post it immediately, this Zap step will not return a ts or permalink field. This option does not support Bot Name and Bot Icon customization and will default to Zapier as bot name and icon.

Include a file to send along with your message. NOTE: Bot names/icons cannot be customized when sending a File.

If you want this to be part of a thread, you'll need the timestamp (Ts) of the parent message. For example: 1345232312616.1231232.

If you get the message from a trigger, select "use a custom value" from the dropdown and connect accordingly by selecting the Ts field.

Otherwise, add a search step and fetch the message you want.

If true, posts in the thread and channel. See here for more info. Ignored unless the message is part of a thread.

Fields left blank will be ignored.

Fields left blank will be ignored.

Fields left blank will be ignored.

Changing a user's email address will send an email to both the old and new addresses, and also post a slackbot to the user informing them of the change.

Update selected values on this user's profile. This argument may only be specified by team admins on paid teams. Defaults to your status, when blank.

Note: Zapier's Slack app supports a limited set of OAuth scopes/permissions, thus many of Slack's API endpoints aren't currently feasible.

API docs for Slack are located here https://api.slack.com/methods

Requests can only be made to domains associated by this application.

These params will be URL-encoded and appended to the URL when making the request.

Authentication headers are included automatically

Zapier will apply these optional headers and values to the request in addition to any headers created as part of the authentication mechanism.

Zapier will pass this along raw. If you would like to provide complex JSON, try a "Code by Zapier" step to build the structure and pass it along here. For example, {"foo": "bar"} is perfectly valid.

Search is case-insensitive

For most responses, we prettify the result we get from Slack. If we're missing a field you're expecting, set this to true

We search the normalized name, so don't worry about accents

For most responses, we prettify the result we get from Slack. If we're missing a field you're expecting, set this to true

A publicly accessible URL to the input as described in the official API

Required if you are using Personal Access Token for authentication

URL of the image with text to recognize

Required if you are using a Personal Access Token

An URL to the image which needs to be recognized

Customize the private email address associated with your mailbox. Be sure to use lowercase and numbers only. Just forward emails to this address to trigger this Zap. Want to receive to your own email address? Try Mailgun, IMAP, Mandrill, or Gmail instead.

Can be a comma separated list of emails. Limited to 5.

You can place HTML in here and we will send it as is. If this is plain text, we will try to convert it to some very basic HTML for greater client compatibility.

A file object to be attached to the email. Plain text content will converted into a txt file and attached. Please note, if the file is over ~10mb or so, you should explore using other email sending techniques (like Gmail or SMTP).

This will be your "display name" when sending. Want to send from your own email address? Try Mailgun, IMAP, Mandrill or Gmail apps instead.

Specify a reply address other than your own.

Can be a comma separated list of emails. Limited to 5.

Can be a comma separated list of emails. Limited to 5.

Set this to "yes" if your emails are received without line breaks or spacing.

Want to be notified when this email is opened? Set this to to True and set up a Zap using the New Read Receipt trigger.

The actual reminder text that should be sent to yourself or a user. To include URLs, Slack uses this syntax.

Slack parses natural language like "in 15 minutes" or "every Thursday". Times are relative to when the Zap actually runs.

Pick a user to remind. If you pick no one, you will be reminded.

Only channels you are a member of will appear in this list. If you can't find your channel, click the Load More button or switch to the Custom tab and enter the channel's ID. Once live, the trigger will work even if you are not a member of the channel.

Specify text of the message to send. Check out the formatting help doc for advanced options.

If you choose no, this message will appear to come from you. Direct messages are always sent by bots.

Specify the bot name which appears as a bold username above the message inside Slack. Defaults to Zapier. When using Schedule At, this field will be ignored by slack.

Either an image url or an emoji available to your team (surrounded by :). For example, https://site.com/icon_256.png or :robot_face:. When using Schedule At, this field will be ignored by slack.

If you choose yes, a link to this Zap will be added to the end of the message, making it easy for you and your team to edit the Zap with one click.

If specified, this will upload the given image URL to Slack and attach it to the message separately.

Should Slack try to automatically expand links in this message? For example: turn a YouTube link into a playable widget.

If no, any usernames and channels mentioned won't be linked (or mentioned). Also affects @channel and @group. Unfortunately, @here notifications cannot be sent by Zapier.

Schedule the message to be posted later. Cannot be more than 120 days in the future. If you do schedule a message, rather than post it immediately, this Zap step will not return a ts or permalink field. This option does not support Bot Name and Bot Icon customization and will default to Zapier as bot name and icon.

Include a file to send along with your message. NOTE: Bot names/icons cannot be customized when sending a File.

If you want this to be part of a thread, you'll need the timestamp (Ts) of the parent message. For example: 1345232312616.1231232.

If you get the message from a trigger, select "use a custom value" from the dropdown and connect accordingly by selecting the Ts field.

Otherwise, add a search step and fetch the message you want.

If true, posts in the thread and channel. See here for more info. Ignored unless the message is part of a thread.

Slack will auto-link @names and #channels where applicable.

Leave empty to clear.

Use any emoji that's available in your Slack team, with leading and trailing :.

If emoji is blank when text isn't, :speech_balloon: is used by default. If both text and emoji are empty, your status will be cleared.

Provide a specific date & time for this status to expire. Statuses will not expire by default.

You can also specify a duration for this status by entering in a value like in 60 minutes, for example. Check out other ways you can use this field here.

Search query to use for finding matching messages. See the Slack Search Documentation for more information on constructing a query.

Sort messages by their match strength or by their date. Default is score.

Sort matching messages in ascending or descending order. Default is descending.

Search is case-insensitive

For most responses, we prettify the result we get from Slack. If we're missing a field you're expecting, set this to true

The leading @ is optional

For most responses, we prettify the result we get from Slack. If we're missing a field you're expecting, set this to true

This is the text that needs to be classified

Required if you are using Personal Access Token for authentication

An URL to the image which needs to be tested

Required if you are using Personal Access Token for authentication

In order to trigger when emails are opened, this must be paired with a separate Zap using the Send Outbound Email action, with the Enable Read Receipts? field set to True.

To test with a live email, send an email to yourself using your Send Outbound Email action (with read receipts enabled) and open it, then test this trigger immediately for samples. If you don't need to test with live data, click Skip Test to use static test data.