slackthreads

slackthreads is a part of slackverse

slackcalls
slackthreads
 slackteams
 slackposts
slackblocks
slackreprex

The goal of slackthreads is to interact with the Slack API to retrieve and interrogate team conversations.

Installation 

remotes::install_github("yonicd/slackthreads")

In the Tin

  • Fetch messages from conversations
  • Fetch replies in slackthreads to the messages in the conversations

Example Using R4DS Slack

Load the Team 

slackteams::load_teams()
slackteams::activate_team('R4ds')

Retrieve Team Channels 

chnls <- slackteams::get_team_channels()

 # r4ds has channels to ask questions in
question_channels <- grep('^help-',chnls$name,value = TRUE)

question_channels

Retrieve Conversations

This will retrieve the last 20 messages from the “help-1-explore_wrangle” channel.

  
convos <- conversations(
  channel = 'help-1-explore_wrangle', 
  limit = 20, 
  max_results = 20
)

Check that request was returned ok and that up to 20 were returned.

length(convos)

There are the following replies to the first message

convos[[1]]$reply_count