username from message

[mradamfrancis]

Is there a way to get the name of the user who enters a message? I can get msg.body.event.user, which is the user id, but I want something meaningful as part of the bot's response

[selfcontained]

The message from Slack will only have the user id, but you can take advantage of Slack's message formatting and it will automatically convert a formatted user link into their name. For example, if you sent the following string in your response, it would be converted to a link that is the user's @name.

<@U024BE7LH>

More about that here: https://api.slack.com/docs/message-formatting#linking_to_channels_and_users

If you need the username, you can always do an api lookup using the users.info call.

[mradamfrancis]

sweet thanks