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Get Slack channel info

Automatically get Slack channel info on slack.com. Get one Slack channel's details by channel id (get it from List Slack channels): name, privacy, member count, topic, purpose, creator, created date, and archived and general flags. A channel the account cannot see is reported as such. Requires login.

Input

channel required

Channel id (C… or G…). Get it from slack.com/list_channels.

workspaceDomain optional

Workspace host, e.g. acme.slack.com. Defaults to the active workspace.

Output

id required
name required
topic optional
created optional
creator optional
purpose optional
is_member optional
is_general optional
is_private optional
is_archived optional
num_members optional

FAQ

Get one Slack channel's details by channel id (get it from List Slack channels): name, privacy, member count, topic, purpose, creator, created date, and archived and general flags. A channel the account cannot see is reported as such. Requires login.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/slack.com/get_channel_info, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/slack.com/get_channel_info
You do not need one. "Get Slack channel info" drives the real slack.com pages in a browser, so it works whether or not slack.com offers an API for this.
Required: channel. Optional: workspaceDomain.
It returns id, name, topic, created, creator, purpose, is_member, is_general, is_private, is_archived, num_members.
Yes. It acts as you on slack.com: on your own Chrome it reuses your session, and on a Reduck-hosted browser it loads the slack.com cookies saved by the Reduck extension.
It only reads. It looks things up on slack.com and changes nothing there.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/slack.com/get_channel_info, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/slack.com/get_channel_info
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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