#How to create a Slackbot in python Here I will guide you step by step to make your own slack bot.

• Getting Started
• Get your bot ID
• Code your idea

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getting started

create the bot in slack

Go to the main menu.You will find something like Apps and Integrations. Click on it , a new window will appear choose the option Build on the top right corner.

Then you will be asked what do you want to build.

Choose Make a custom integeration

Now you will be given four options:

• Incomming webhook
• Bots
• Slash commands
• Outgoing webhook

Choose Bots

After that choose Add bot integration after giving your bot a handle or name. Then fill up the discription and other details. Get your BOT API from there and keep it safe.

install slackclient

You can use any method you find easy. I myself prefer the pip.

pip install slackclient

Now, when you have installed slackclient, we can proceed to our next step that is getting the ** BOT ID **.

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bot id

You need to go to your IDE and this code this code over there and execute it.

from slackclient import SlackClient


BOT_NAME = 'starterbot'

slack_client = SlackClient('SLACK_BOT_TOKEN')


if __name__ == "__main__":
    api_call = slack_client.api_call("users.list")
    if api_call.get('ok'):
        # retrieve all users so we can find our bot
        users = api_call.get('members')
        for user in users:
            if 'name' in user and user.get('name') == BOT_NAME:
                print("Bot ID for '" + user['name'] + "' is " + user.get('id'))
    else:
        print("could not find bot user with the name " + BOT_NAME)

Now you have your Bot ID and now you can start coding some sense to your bot.