How awesome would it be to have hyperlinks in your documents which directly refer to Slack channels and participants? Here's how to construct those URLs.
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| Sample hyperlinks below will not appear "live" in Github-hosted documents; it's being filtered for your convenience. The URL syntax is correct and will work in other documents. |
Open up yourdomain.slack.com in a web browser and then use the developer tools to search for team_id in the source. In the "common boot data" Javascript "boot_data" section you'll find something like "team_id":"T12345678".
Right-click on the desired channel and 'Copy Link'. You'll get something like:
https://yourdomain.slack.com/messages/C12345678
Right-click on the desired user and 'Copy Link'. You'll get something like:
https://yourdomain.slack.com/messages/U12345678
Deep links into Slack are of the form:
slack://channel?team=TEAM_ID&id=SPECIFIC_ID
so, using the above sample values, a deep link to a channel would be
slack://channel?team=T12345678&id=C12345678
and to a user would be:
slack://channel?team=T12345678&id=U12345678
You can paste these URLs into Microsoft Word or Confluence link elements, or directly into HTML documents:
<a href="slack://channel?team=T12345678&id=C12345678">#channel</a>
<a href="slack://channel?team=T12345678&id=U12345678">@user</a>
or into Markdown (although these links will be rendered as "dead" text rather than "live" links on Github-hosted systems):
[`#channel`](slack://channel?team=T12345678&id=C12345678)
[`@user`](slack://channel?team=T12345678&id=U12345678)
There you go! Deep links into Slack.