How to access to the snippet data in Slack ?

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Hello everyone,I would like to retrieve data from Slack. These are in a Slack text snippet because, even though it's text, there are a lot of characters.If you don't know, the text snippet is a feature present in Slack and which allows, among other things, to send a large number of lines of text (like code).On Zapier, I would like to use the "New Message Posted to Private Channel in Slack" or "New File in Slack" function but I cannot access the data that is in the Slack text snippet... Anyone have an idea?Thanks in advance

SamB · Accepted Answer

Hi there @Damdam!👋I’ve been looking into this but couldn’t find any existing feature requests for the ability to have the content of a text snippetreturned with either of theNew Message Posted to Private Channelor New File Slack triggers. I’m unable to open up a feature request for this on your behalf so I’d recommend reaching out to our Support team about this. They’ll be able to submit a new feature request for the Slack app and add your vote to it.In the meantime, if Slack allows you to set up a webhook on their end, that happens to send the contents of the text snippet, you could get it to send that webhook to a Zap. So instead of using Slack as the trigger, you’d use the Webhooks by Zapier app as the trigger - see:Trigger Zaps from webhooks. It looks like Slack has an Events API that you might be able to use for this:https://api.slack.com/apis/connections/events-api. I’ve not used it myself to access the contents of a text snippet before so I can’t fully guarantee it’s definitely possible but thought it worth suggesting just in case it works! 🙂

Damdam · Answer

Hi @SamBThank you for your answer !I will contact the support team and also try to use a Webhook!Have a nice day🙂

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