What token is required to use the RTM client?

[orange-puff]

From various tutorials, it seems that the current bot setup supported by slack is to create an app and a bot, each of which have a token. The SlackRtmClient, and I've tried both my bot and app token and neither seem to work.

I end up with
Exception in thread "main" slack.api.ApiError: not_allowed_token_type

[mccartney]

I think there are several types allowed.
At one place I am using a Custom Integrations | Bot | API Token. Its value starts with xoxb-. But from what I remember, this has been deprecated in Slack.

At another place I don't have admin, so I cannot check.

Does anyone know?

[mccartney]

The docs for https://api.slack.com/methods/rtm.connect say name two options:

User tokens
Legacy bot tokens bot

So the Legacy bot token is probably my usage. Then the other answer is "User token" which I have little experience with.

[orange-puff]

Would you be open to adding a socket mode client to this library?
https://api.slack.com/start/planning/choosing
I could look into adding this. Without going into any detail, the docs say Socket Mode is preferred to RTM

[mccartney]

That'd be a great contribution. Feel free to proceed. Please consult if you want to add new non trivial dependencies. Which I guess is likely for sockets.

[orange-puff]

Thanks. My understanding is the RTM client starts a websocket connection with slack. If so, the SocketMode client would do something very similar. It actually also requires a websocket connection, not just a normal socket connection.