Schedule a message in Slack

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LLL picture LLL · Jan 30, 2017 · Viewed 81.9k times · Source

I need to send a message in slack at a time set in advance.

Is there a way to do it through the Slack API or do I need to have a script running and checking if it's time to send the message and then send it?

Answer

Afas picture Afas · Jun 21, 2017

You should be able to create a reminder sending a message to @slackbot The message should be like:

/remind [@someone or #channel] [what] [when]

Here's some examples:

/remind @username to do something in 24 hours

or:

/remind @username to do something at 16:00

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