Having the error "'error': 'not_authed'"

[windowshopr]

Description

I followed the setup tutorial (created an app, added a bot, etc.), then I copy my Bot User OAuth Access Token to the following code:

import os
import slack

slack_token = os.environ.get("xoxb-THE_REST_OF_AUTH_IS_HERE")
client = slack.WebClient(token=slack_token)

client.chat_postMessage(
  channel="#MY_CHANNEL_IS_HERE",
  text="Hello from your app! :tada:"
)

...and I'm getting the following error:

    raise e.SlackApiError(message=msg, response=self)
slack.errors.SlackApiError: The request to the Slack API failed.
The server responded with: {'ok': False, 'error': 'not_authed'}

How do I "Auth" my bot's token then?

I did see a similar issue from another user, but no answer was provided to fix it.

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Reproducible in:

slackclient version: 2.3.1

python version: 3.6

OS version(s): Windows 10

Steps to reproduce:

1. I had to change the "os.environ[]" to "os.environ.get()" to make it work without a keyerror.
2. Followed 2 different tutorials and tried a myriad of different codes and other how to's.

Expected result:

To be able to post a message to my Slack channel from my python script.

Actual result:

The mentioned error

Attachments:

[windowshopr]

Scratch that, I'm using the below code to post messages to my channel:

import requests
import json

web_hook_url = 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/THE_REST_OF_MY_APPS_URL' # Need to encrypt this value in future

slack_msg = {'text': 'Alert from Python'}

requests.post(web_hook_url, data=json.dumps(slack_msg))

[darthsalad]

try this:

import os
from slack_sdk import WebClient
from slack_sdk.errors import SlackApiError
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()
key = os.environ.get('token') #token in a .env file 
client = WebClient(token = key) #or if not in a .env file, (token="xoxb-res_of_the_token")
result = client.chat_postMessage(
        channel='#push-notifications', 
        text="Hello world"
    )

[darthsalad]

was trying today and got the error, and after seeing the errors in the docs, it was not getting initialised properly and the getenv was returning a "NoneType" object
had forgotten to add this line:

load_dotenv()

fml