Cannot delete message in IM channel as Slack bot

Question

I'm trying to use chat.delete on a "user" channel, the same as you do with chat.postMessage, however I keep getting a channel_not_found error.

slack.api_call(
        "chat.delete",
        channel=userID, # Exact same value as used with chat.postMessage
        ts=ts
    )

Is this a limitation in their API? Is there a way to achieve this?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 05 '19 at 18:08

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Turns out chat.postMessage will use the SlackBot channel when addressing a single user. The proper way of communicating via IM with a user is to use conversations.open. When I used that everything works as expected.

answered May 05 '19 at 18:08

Naatan

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There is a "hack" which does not require conversations.open: check this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54930102/4379151 – Erik Kalkoken May 05 '19 at 18:26

Cannot delete message in IM channel as Slack bot

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