How can I make it so that slack bots can use Giphy?

Question

For some reason, the existing Giphy app for slack does not allow bots to call a GIF from giphy.com

If I type \"/Giphy sad\", the Giphy app will automatically load a sad

Answer 1

The official API does not support invoking other slash commands, but there is an unofficial API method that does it:chat.command.

Note that this will only work in situations where you have full control over a Slack workspace and can use legacy tokens.