Slack
What Blowhorn does on Slack: actions, sign-in, and how much evidence stands behind each reading.
Slack
API, never the browser. Sends a message as you to a channel, a person,
or a thread: the target is #channel, @user, a channel id, a channel
link, or a message link for a thread reply. One profile sends; the
credential is a Slack token in your account (SLACK_USER_TOKEN,
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN, or a workspace session captured through the
extension). blowhorn post --platform slack --message sends one ad-hoc
message with no queue row.
Slack messages
Send from a queue row or ad hoc. A row sends to its own target; --message
with --target sends one message you type, with no row read or marked
done, and --target redirects the run's queued Slack rows. The target
is a #channel, @user, channel id, channel link, or message link for
a thread reply; anything else is refused, never sent somewhere else.
One profile sends per run, named with --profile; the profile from
the defaults file does not count as named.
Captured versus unverified
How much evidence stands behind each reading Blowhorn takes on Slack. All platforms explains what captured, probed, and unverified mean.
| State | Captured, probed or unverified |
|---|---|
A message was posted: Slack answers ok |
Unverified (docs) - never recorded from a real response |
| A message's link, built from the answer | Unverified (docs) |
| How a captured workspace session is used | Unverified (model) - Slack's web client convention, undocumented by Slack |
| Capturing a workspace session from your browser | Unverified (model) - a miss captures nothing and posts nothing |
| Sign-in errors, OAuth answers, and link shapes | Unverified (docs) |
| A resend is not duplicated | Unverified (docs) - Blowhorn's own send record keeps each send to once |
| The marks of an app-attributed message | Unverified (docs) - a miss reports an attributed message as clean |
| A rate limit's wait, and an unreadable answer | Unverified (docs, model) - such a send is marked outcome unknown and never resent |
Related
- All platforms - every platform, side by side.
- Preview and publish queued posts - the posting run.
- Send a Slack message - Slack, worked.
- Content queue columns and row states - every column each platform reads.
- Messages and exit codes - what a refusal means.
- Who can post as whom - why a credential is permission.
- Why Blowhorn uses your own Chrome - browser versus API.
- You're in control - every safety control in one place.
- Platform action matrix - safe versus risky actions, per platform.