Hello, Hope you are well. I created an OAuth authorization for an app for a slack node. (I basically followed each step of the “Using Oauth” Slack credentials | n8n Docs ). Now, the node is working but the message is sent as myself, bot with the @bot. I checked the slack documentation, it seems th…

The option “Send As User” is only displayed if “AccessToken” gets used to authenticate (not OAuth) because it only works in combination with it, if I remember correctly.

But how can I send the parameter username? Because I don’t see it in Options or Attachments. (I checked the permissions, I have chat:write chat:write.customize chat:write.public so I should be good to send message as another username, shouldn’t I?)

Any ideas? Please it’s really annoying for me as it is sent as myself, and thus I don’t have any notifications on slack :confused:

I tried for example to put as an attachment this: {"as_user": false, "username": "My bot"} without any successes :frowning:

Hey @Cyril ! As mentioned earlier the node currently doesn’t have that functionality with the OAuth authentication method. But you can use the Access Token authentication method to send the message as a bot.

Ok ! Done it this way, i thought it was no longer possible to add this type of token with slack, but I was wrong.

This PR will fix the problem. https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/pull/1952

Hey @umireon ! Welcome to the community :sparkling_heart: Thank you for opening the PR!

Hi, Is there an update on how to do this? Thanks.

It never got merged for OAuth2, but you can do this with the access token authentication.

@RicardoE105 , what ever happened here? Is there any chance this will get merged?

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Saravicius November 23, 2023, 3:37pm 26

Only today I I realised I use BOT TOKEN which has an expiration time. Tried to find a way to solve that, and seems that might be a common issue by using Slack and n8n or I might be wrong.

Raised a separate topic:

Rotation of Slack Bot authorisation tokens

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