Slack Integration — Automate Slack with AI on Beauto

Slack is a channel-based messaging platform. With Slack, people can work together more effectively, connect all their software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work - all within a secure, enterprise-grade environment.

Category: team chat, team collaboration · 158 actions available

What you can automate with Slack

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  • Sync Slack data with Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Google Sheets, and more
  • Trigger AI agents on new Slack events and route the output anywhere
  • Schedule recurring Slack tasks — daily reports, cleanups, or bulk updates
  • Use natural language to describe the workflow; Beauto builds it for you

Slack actions Beauto supports

  • Add call participants — Registers new participants added to a Slack call.
  • Add emoji — Adds a custom emoji to a Slack workspace given a unique name and an image URL; subject to workspace emoji limits.
  • Add an emoji alias — Adds an alias for an existing custom emoji in a Slack Enterprise Grid organization.
  • Add Enterprise user to workspace — Adds an Enterprise user to a workspace. Use when you need to assign an existing Enterprise Grid user to a specific workspace with optional guest restrictions.
  • Add reaction to message — Adds a specified emoji reaction to an existing message in a Slack channel, identified by its timestamp; does not remove or retrieve reactions.
  • Add a remote file — Adds a reference to an external file (e.g., Google Drive, Dropbox) to Slack for discovery and sharing, requiring a unique `external_id` and an `external_url` accessible by Slack.
  • Add a star to an item — Stars a channel, file, file comment, or a specific message in Slack.
  • Search for channels in Enterprise organization — Tool to search for public or private channels in an Enterprise organization. Use when you need to find channels by name, type, or other criteria within an Enterprise Grid workspace.
  • Test Slack API connection — Tool to check API calling code by testing connectivity and authentication to the Slack API. Use when you need to verify that API credentials are valid and the connection is working properly.
  • Archive a Slack conversation — Archives a Slack conversation by its ID, rendering it read-only and hidden while retaining history, ideal for cleaning up inactive channels; be aware that some channels (like #general or certain DMs) cannot be archived a
  • Real-time search — Search Slack messages, files, channels, and users via Real-time Search API. For queries referencing entities by name (users/channels/files), first resolve with content_types (users/channels/files) to get exact ID. If mul
  • Check search capabilities — Check if semantic (AI-powered) search is available on the Slack workspace. Returns whether natural language queries will trigger semantic search in assistant.search.context calls.
  • Close conversation channel — Closes a Slack direct message (DM) or multi-person direct message (MPDM) channel, removing it from the user's sidebar without deleting history; this action affects only the calling user's view.
  • Convert public channel to private — Convert a public Slack channel to private using the Admin API. This is an Enterprise Grid only feature and requires an org-installed user token with admin.conversations:write scope.
  • Create a reminder — Creates a Slack reminder with specified text and time; time accepts Unix timestamps, seconds from now, or natural language (e.g., 'in 15 minutes', 'every Thursday at 2pm').
  • Create Slack Canvas — Creates a new Slack Canvas with the specified title and optional content.
  • Create channel — Initiates a public or private channel-based conversation in a Slack workspace. Immediately creates the channel; invoke only after explicit user confirmation.
  • Create a channel-based conversation — Creates a new public or private Slack channel with a unique name; the channel can be org-wide, or team-specific if `team_id` is given (required if `org_wide` is false or not provided).
  • Create Enterprise team — Tool to create an Enterprise team in Slack. Use when you need to create a new team (workspace) within an Enterprise Grid organization. Requires admin.teams:write scope.
  • Create a Slack user group — Creates a new User Group (often referred to as a subteam) in a Slack workspace.
  • Customize URL unfurl — Customizes URL previews (unfurling) in a specific Slack message using a URL-encoded JSON in `unfurls` to define custom content or remove existing previews.
  • Delete Slack Canvas — Deletes a Slack Canvas permanently and irreversibly. Always confirm with the user before calling this tool.
  • Delete a public or private channel — Permanently and irreversibly deletes a specified public or private channel, including all its messages and files, within a Slack Enterprise Grid organization.
  • Delete a file by ID — Permanently deletes an existing file from a Slack workspace using its unique file ID; this action is irreversible and also removes any associated comments or shares.
  • Delete file comment — Deletes a specific comment from a file in Slack; this action is irreversible.
  • Delete a Slack reminder — Deletes an existing Slack reminder, typically when it is no longer relevant or a task is completed; this operation is irreversible.
  • Delete a message from a chat — Deletes a message, identified by its channel ID and timestamp, from a Slack channel, private group, or direct message conversation; the authenticated user or bot must be the original poster.
  • Delete scheduled chat message — Deletes a pending, unsent scheduled message from the specified Slack channel, identified by its `scheduled_message_id`.
  • Delete user profile photo — Deletes the Slack profile photo for the user identified by the token, reverting them to the default avatar; this action is irreversible and succeeds even if no custom photo was set.
  • Disable a Slack user group — Disables a specified, currently enabled Slack User Group by its unique ID, effectively archiving it by setting its 'date_delete' timestamp; the group is not permanently deleted and can be re-enabled.
  • Download Slack file — Tool to download Slack file content and convert it to a publicly accessible URL. Use when you need to retrieve and download files that have been shared in Slack channels or conversations.
  • Edit Slack Canvas — Edits a Slack Canvas with granular control over content placement. Supports replace, insert (before/after/start/end) operations for flexible content management.
  • Share file public url — Enables public sharing for an existing Slack file by generating a publicly accessible URL; this action does not create new files. Once enabled, the file is accessible to anyone with the URL — verify intent before sharing
  • Enable a user group — Enables a disabled User Group in Slack using its ID, reactivating it for mentions and permissions; this action only changes the enabled status and cannot create new groups or modify other properties.
  • End a call — Ends an ongoing Slack call, identified by its ID (obtained from `calls.add`), optionally specifying the call's duration.
  • End DND session — Ends the authenticated user's current Do Not Disturb (DND) session in Slack, affecting only DND status and making them available; if DND is not active, Slack acknowledges the request without changing status.
  • End snooze — Ends the current user's snooze mode immediately.
  • Fetch conversation history — Fetches a chronological list of messages and events from a specified Slack conversation, accessible by the authenticated user/bot, with options for pagination and time range filtering. IMPORTANT LIMITATION: This action o
  • Fetch item reactions — Fetches reactions for a Slack message, file, or file comment. Exactly one identifier path must be provided: `channel`+`timestamp`, `file`, or `file_comment`. Mixing identifiers (e.g., providing both `channel`+`timestamp`
  • Retrieve conversation replies — Retrieves replies to a specific parent message in a Slack conversation, using the channel ID and the parent message's timestamp (`ts`). Note: The parent message in the response contains metadata (reply_count, reply_users

Slack triggers

  • New Channel Created Trigger — Triggered when a new channel is created in Slack.
  • Channel Message Received — Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.
  • Direct Message Received — Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.
  • Message Reaction Added — Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
  • Reaction Added Trigger — DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_ADDED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack.
  • Reaction Removed Trigger — DEPRECATED. Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message.
  • New Bot Message Received Trigger — DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_CHANNEL_MESSAGE_RECEIVED` with `is_bot_message=true` instead. Triggered when a new bot message is posted to a Slack channel.
  • New Message Received Trigger — DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_CHANNEL_MESSAGE_RECEIVED` instead. Triggered when a new message is posted to a Slack channel.

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