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candrholdings / slack-cli

A command line interface for Slack implemented using node.
https://candrholdings.github.io/slack-cli/
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Talking to a bot #25

Open thestumbler opened 7 years ago

thestumbler commented 7 years ago

I've used slack-cli successfully with my team's slack. However, I can't send a message to a bot (specifically, growthbot) that is a member of our team. I've tried both sending a direct message to the bot, and also sending a message to a channel that the bot is monitoring. The message does arrive in the chat or channel, but the bot apparently doesn't see it. Typing the exact same message by hand into the Slack app works as expected.

For example,

Any thoughts why this doesn't work, and/or how to make it work?

thestumbler commented 7 years ago

One observation when sending a message to the channel... when I type the message manually into the Slack app, the name of the bot becomes blue colored. Yet when sending the exact same message by slack-cli, it isn't blue. For example (pretend bold is blue):