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How to Fix error while trying to get users list in Slack

I am trying fetch the users details using PostMan i am getting below error.

users.list

Headers passing Token & Content-Type as urlencoded

When i test i am getting:

"error": "not_authed"
Solution

  • not_authed means that the Slack API did not recognize your token. This is properly due to an encoding mismatch.

    In Postman make sure to set your request to https://slack.com/api/users.list as POST.

    In Body set to x-www-form-urlencoded and set at key for token.

    Do not set any Auth or Headers yourself (Postman will do that for you. The Header Content-Type will be set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded though)

    You can also more simply fetch the user list with a GET request and just add the token as URL parameter. No encoding setting for the body required.