name: slack-automator description: "Error: --action required. Use when you need slack automator capabilities. Triggers on: slack automator, token, channel, message, user-id, query."

Slack Automator

A complete Slack automation toolkit for sending messages, managing channels, searching conversations, listing users, posting rich Block Kit messages, uploading files, and managing Slack workspace operations — all from the command line using the Slack Web API with a bot token.

Description

Slack Automator provides programmatic access to your Slack workspace. Send messages to channels or DMs, search through message history, manage channels (create, archive, set topic/purpose), list and look up users, post rich formatted messages with Block Kit, react to messages, and more. Ideal for notification pipelines, ChatOps automation, reporting bots, and workspace administration.

Requirements

• SLACK_BOT_TOKEN — Slack Bot User OAuth Token (starts with xoxb-)
• Create a Slack App at https://api.slack.com/apps
• Add required bot scopes: chat:write, channels:read, channels:history, users:read, search:read, etc.
• Install the app to your workspace

Commands

• channel-history — Error: --channel required
• list-channels — {} — {} members{}'.format(priv, ch.get('name',''), members,
• list-members — Execute list-members
• message — general" --message "Hello!" --token xoxb-xxx
• search — {} — {}: {}'.format(channel, user, text))
• set-topic — Error: --channel required
• stdin — Error: --channel required
• user-info — Error: --user-id required

Environment Variables

| Variable | Required | Description |

Examples

# Send a message
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-xxx slack-automator send "#general" "Hello team! 🚀"

# Send a rich Block Kit message
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-xxx slack-automator send-blocks "#alerts" '[{"type":"section","text":{"type":"mrkdwn","text":"*Alert:* Server CPU > 90%"}}]'

# Search messages
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-xxx slack-automator search "deployment from:alice in:#engineering"

# List channels
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-xxx slack-automator channels

# Look up user by email
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-xxx slack-automator user lookup alice@company.com

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