How to get/enable public URL for media uploaded to slack using slack API

Question

I'm using slack api to upload media to a public channel, in-response I'm getting different urls for the uploaded media including 'permalink_pulic' which seems as the public URL, but that link doesn't work.Other Links are only accessible by slack team members.

Is there any way we can enable those public_link, so that media can be accessible outside slack.

Answer 1

In general Slack files are not public, but you can open public access to them if you want.

Call the method files.sharedPublicURL after you uploaded it to enable public access to a Slack file via its permalink_public URL.

See API documentation for more info.