Create Channels

Overview

We can use the Slack API to start conversations and add users to those conversations. The Slack API is a useful tool for automating various tasks. For example, we can create a new channel whenever a new team or group is made in a project management system. Once an application opens a channel, it has many endpoints that it can use to take different actions. These actions include changing a channel’s name and archiving it.

Let’s look at the following endpoints in this lesson:

1. conversations.create: This endpoint initiates a public or private channel-based conversation.
2. conversations.invite: This endpoint invites the user(s) to a channel.

Create a new channel

To create a new channel, we access the https://slack.com/api/conversations.create endpoint. Besides the token, we need to provide a name for the channel.

Note: Make sure the channel names are written in lowercase and without spaces. You can use dashes (-) instead of spaces.

Some important query parameters for the conversations.create endpoint are the following: