About Zapier Community
New to our Community? Get to know more about our space and how to make the most of your time here.

Code of Conduct Community FAQ's Zapier Common Questions What to Expect

Get Started With Zapier
New to Zapier? We have got you covered with our Zapier 101 Resources.

Zapier Essentials

Get Support
Have a question? Let's get you an answer!

How Do I...? Troubleshooting Code & Webhooks Developer Zone

Other Help Resources
Wait, there's more! Check out these Community sourced spaces for additional resources.

Zapier Help Center Hire an Expert

Zapier Products
Learn more about Zapier's new products.

Zapier Tables Zapier Interfaces

Zapier Reading
All of our best learning resources can be found here.

Featured Articles Show & Tell AI Hub Zapier Tools Hub

Learning Groups
Excited to meet other builders? Check out our interest areas full of doers, dreamers, and in-betweeners.

User Groups

Other Learning Resources
Some of our favorite additional ways to upskill your Zapier knowledge.

Zapier Learn Zapier Blog Zapier Webinars

Product Updates
Check out what is new and upcoming with Zapier with our regular product updates.

Product Updates

Early Access Program
Want to join Early Access? Learn more here.

Best answer

How to send an auto-reply in slack when someone DMs me?

  • 16 January 2021
  • 3 replies
  • 840 views
X
Userlevel 1

Hello!

So my pals and I have a very small (only four of us) and informal workspace where we DM each other and share stuff. I’d like to be able to set a custom message response when anyone DMs me. For instance, if I’m playing a full screen game, I want to be able to set something like “I’m playing a game, DM me on discord” or something similar. This seems like it should be really easy, but I can’t figure out how to do it - there isn’t a trigger event for getting a DM. I’ve tried using my slack ID as a custom value, but I can’t get that to work.

Someone else asked about this 7 months ago, but there was no reply that explains how to do this.

Anyone?

Thanks.

icon

Best answer by nicksimard 27 April 2021, 02:09

View original
This post has been closed for comments. Please create a new post if you need help or have a question about this topic.

3 replies

Ennes
Userlevel 5
Badge +5

Hey @Xylem Flow,

interesting idea. As you already mentioned there is no trigger for DMs in Slack. Maybe this is something you can work with thou? Let me know.

D

Hi,

Have you figured out coding or a way of automatic DMs? I would like to integrate it on my site to automatically send quick responses to my clients. 

nicksimard
Userlevel 7
Badge +11

Hi @Xylem Flow!

I took a look at the Slack API docs and I don’t see anything that would allow you to get DMs (it’s possible that I missed something).

You could also post in our Hire a Pro forum to see if anyone is able to help you out :) 

Terms & Conditions