Limit slackbot responce to certain channel

[q0u04bj3]

I know how to use "listen_to" when anyone mentions certain words in a comment. Is it possible to limit this to certain channels?

[roidayan]

I have not started using this bot yet so there might be a better and/or cleaner way but I think you can check the channel name in the callback like this:

message.channel._body['name']

[jtatum]

I use a decorator like this:

def in_allowed_channel(func):
    def allowed_channel(message, *args, **kwargs):
        if message.body['channel'] not in ALLOWED_CHANNELS:
            message.reply('Please ask that in <#C12345|#botchannel>'
            return
        return func(message, *args, **kwargs)

    # Copy the docstring to the decorated func so help works
    allowed_channel.__doc__ = func.__doc__
    return allowed_channel```