Interact with attachments in slack

[birdman4512]

Can will respond to information (Or access information) located in attachments in slack?
Mostly looking at seeing if a post has an attachment or text file attached and then if it does, downloading it and doing something with its contents?

[BrianGallew]

Not without code changes. The new Slack backend (currently under review) receives events from Slack, so you could easily create an appropriate handler for such events. The tricky part comes with making such events accessible via a Plugin: Currently plugins support @hear/respond (which accepts messages) and @route() (which enables HTTP access). You would need to stand up a new decorator and all the machinery underneath to figure out selectivity and actually accessing the file (PDF, XLS, CSV, TXT, etc). That's quite a lot of infrastructure, and it would all be Slack-specific.

[pastorhudson]

Slack has rich content messages with rich text, buttons, and interactivity. It calls these messages "Message Attachments" and seems to be renaming them to "Message Blocks". Just to be clear this feature request is for actual file attachments, not "Slack Message Attachments".