Slack Incoming Webhook sends as my user

Question

I\'ve created an Incoming Webhook within my Slack workspace. I\'m using it from a third party tool to post a JSON object to the hook url. I want to send a notification to

Answer 1

This seams to be standard behavior when setting up a webhook through a Slack app.

But there is an alternative approach: You can also set up incoming webhooks as custom integration. Then you are then able to send messages to the slackbot channel of a user.

To setup a webhook as a custom integration go to Slack App Directory and add the app "Incoming Webhook". Then create a new webhook. You can either directly use the ID of the destination user as channel in the initial configuration, or use the channel override feature by including a channel property in the message.

Example:

{ 
   "text": "This is a line of text in a channel.",
   "channel": "U12345678"
}