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Using the Slack API to post mesages from AWS

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Using the Slack API to post mesages from AWS

- [Instructor] So we're back here at the app information and settings screen. And I'm going to click again on Add features and functionality and then select Permissions because there's something else I need to show you. If you look at the permission that we assign, which is chat:write, there's a link on it. So we're going to click on that. It opens a new browser window with Slack API specifics around this particular permission scope. Now, the first thing you're going to notice is that there are several methods that comes along with this permission. So since we assigned this code to our application, now we have access to chat.delete, deleteSchedule, postEphemeral, postMessage, scheduleMessage, and update. The one that we want for right now is the postMessage, so we're going to click on that. And now we get the exact documentation on how to post a message to a Slack channel. We scroll down. And the first thing you're going…

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