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Slack and X (Formerly Twitter) integration

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Integrate Slack and X (Formerly Twitter)

Build your own Slack and X (Formerly Twitter) integration

Create custom Slack and X (Formerly Twitter) workflows by choosing triggers and actions. Nodes come with global operations and settings, as well as app-specific parameters that can be configured. You can also use the HTTP Request node to query data from any app or service with a REST API.

How to connect Slack and X (Formerly Twitter)

  • Step 1: Add the first step

  • Step 2: Add Slack and X (Formerly Twitter) nodes

  • Step 3: Connect Slack and X (Formerly Twitter)

  • Step 4: Run workflow

Find and share mentions from Twitter and Slack

This workflow searches for mentions of a company's name on Twitter and shares the tweets that mention it in a Slack channel.

Prerequisites

Nodes

  • Cron node executes the workflow every 10 minutes. Note that if you change the Mode from "Every X" you will need to manually update the Date & Time node to subtract the interval you are using.
  • Set nodes set the required values (name of the Slack channel, name of the Twitter account to search for, the tweet text and URL).
  • Date & Time node subtracts 10 minutes from the workflow execution time.
  • Twitter node gets the latest 50 tweets that mention the specified account.
  • IF node filters tweets posted in the past 10 minutes.
  • Slack node posts tweets in a Slack channel.

Nodes used in this workflow

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Slack supported actions

Archive
Archives a conversation
Close
Closes a direct message or multi-person direct message
Create
Initiates a public or private channel-based conversation
Get
Get information about a channel
Get Many
Get many channels in a Slack team
History
Get a conversation's history of messages and events
Invite
Invite a user to a channel
Join
Joins an existing conversation
Kick
Removes a user from a channel
Leave
Leaves a conversation
Member
List members of a conversation
Open
Opens or resumes a direct message or multi-person direct message
Rename
Renames a conversation
Replies
Get a thread of messages posted to a channel
Set Purpose
Sets the purpose for a conversation
Set Topic
Sets the topic for a conversation
Unarchive
Unarchives a conversation
Get
Get Many
Get & filters team files
Upload
Create or upload an existing file
Delete
Get Permalink
Search
Send
Update
Add
Adds a reaction to a message
Get
Get the reactions of a message
Remove
Remove a reaction of a message
Add
Add a star to an item
Delete
Delete a star from an item
Get Many
Get many stars of autenticated user
Get
Get information about a user
Get Many
Get a list of many users
Get User's Profile
Get a user's
Get User's Status
Get online status of a user
Update User's Profile
Update a user's profile
Create
Disable
Enable
Get Many
Update

X (Formerly Twitter) supported actions

Create
Send a direct message to a user
Add Member
Add a member to a list
Create
Create, quote, or reply to a tweet
Delete
Delete a tweet
Like
Like a tweet
Retweet
Retweet a tweet
Search
Search for tweets from the last seven days
Get
Retrieve a user by username

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