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Can slack bots use slack-api as admin or or full privileges user, using slack as guest?

As a slack guest user I can not update the channels topic, what if I create a bot and use https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.setTopic ? will it be possible to update the topic or will it take my guest user for this and return error?

Solution

  • The rights of a Slack app are defined by

    • the requested scopes at installation (e.g. channels.write, which you need to change the channel topic).

    • the rights of the installing user which are inherited (e.g. admin rights to delete messages)

    So if you have a conversational bot that can be instructed to change the channel topic a guest user could use it and it would work.

    Note that this will not work with slash commands though, since guest users can not use slash commands. (as described here)