Alfred Slack

Workflow to open Slack channels and contacts without having to obtain an OAuth token.

The plugin uses Slack Deep Linking.

Installation

1. Download the Workflow (alfred_slack.alfredworkflow)
2. Double click to install
3. Create a .alfred-slack.json in your user home directory.

Content of .alfred-slack.json

[
  {
    "team": "myTeam",
    "teamId": "ABCDEFG",
    "channels": [
      {
        "name": "#some-channel",
        "id": "ABCDEFGH"
      },
      {
        "name": "@some-user",
        "id": "DEFGHIJK"
      }
    ]
  }
]

A name only refers to some viewable text. For displaying, only the IDs are relevant. You can obtain them by opening up the Slack web client and then switching through channels and users. Note how the URL changed. The static ID part is the teamId, the variable one is the channel id.

Updating the content of .alfred-slack.json

As soon you have created an initial .alfred-slack.json, updating becomes quite cumbersome. To ease the process there are two utility scripts to help you update the content.

Via a Slack App

This approach will update your .alfred-slack.json using all channels and users in your workspace. Problem about this is that you need an installed Slack app with channels.read and users.read permissions. A normal user does not have those permissions.

But in case you do - follow this approach for both updating channels and users.

• You need to get the actual available via the Slack API tester (users and channels). Execute the respective query and copy the content (for each separate) to a top levellist-response.json.
• Run npm run mergeAlfredSlackJsonWithSlackListFromApiTester to get it merged to your .alfred-slack.json.

Via HTML content

This is the more generic approach. However, it will only put users and channels to your .alfred-slack.json that is actually visible on the page. In case you want a specific users, make sure it is visible on the web page.

Afterwards, open up your Slack workspace in the browser and copy the HTML source code to a top level slack.html.

Then run npm run mergeAlfredSlackJsonChannelInfoFromHtml to get it merged to your .alfred-slack.json.