Access Slack files from a slack bot

Question

I need a slack bot that\'s able to receive and save files send from slack chatrooms.

The problem is: slack doesn\'t send file contents, but an array of links pointing to

Answer 1

Example for using the Python requests library to fetch an example file:

import requests
url = 'https://slack-files.com/T0JU09BGC-F0UD6SJ21-a762ad74d3'
token = 'xoxp-8853424449-8820034832-8891394196-faf6f0'
requests.get(url, headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % token})