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Slack Developer Tools

Utilities for building great Slack apps.

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Get quick access to our API docs right inside of Slack.

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Display useful information

Easily retrieve useful information like conversation and workspace IDs.

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Inspect messages

Investigate the structure of channel messages and see how interactive messages are constructed in code.

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Start Using

Just click the button to install the tools in your Slack workspace:

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Usage

Message Shortcuts

Inspect

Get the JSON payload that defines this message, similar to what you would get from the conversations.replies API method.

Global Shortcuts

Display Platform status

Get an update on the current status of Slack, as reported by the Slack Status API.

Display IDs

Easily retrieve useful information like conversation and workspace IDs using a modal powered by a Block Kit conversations_select element.

Search API documentation

Get a brief overview of a given method, powered by our OpenAPI spec

Slash Commands

/sdt docs [method name]

Get a brief overview of the given method, powered by our OpenAPI spec

        /sdt docs chat.postMessage
      

/sdt status

Returns information on the current health of the Slack product

        /sdt status
      

/sdt help

Get a list of commands you can run on Slack Developer Tools

        /sdt help
      

/sdt whoami

Display your Workspace ID, current Conversation ID and user ID

        /sdt whoami