Slack Event API for Bot Mentions

Question

I\'m building a Slack bot using a Slack App. I have managed to authorise and am successfully receiving events via the Event API.

I\'m trying to find out how to listen

Answer 1

Subscribe to the app_mention event instead of the message.channels to receive events mentioning your app/bot.

Here's an example payload from slack:

{
    "type": "app_mention",
    "user": "U061F7AUR",
    "text": "<@U0LAN0Z89> is it everything a river should be?",
    "ts": "1515449522.000016",
    "channel": "C0LAN2Q65",
    "event_ts": "1515449522000016"
}

Subscribe to the message.im also if you want to receive Direct message events.

More info on the app_mention event - https://api.slack.com/events/app_mention

Hope that helps :)