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Search Slack messages

Automatically search Slack messages on slack.com. Full-text search across the workspace's messages, supporting Slack's modifiers (from:@user, in:#channel, before:/after:date, "exact phrase"). One page per call. Requires login.

Input

query required

Search query, incl. Slack modifiers like from:@alice in:#general after:2026-01-01.

page optional

1-based page number (default 1).

sort optional

'timestamp' (default) or 'score' (relevance).

count optional

Results per page (default 20).

sortDir optional

'desc' (default) or 'asc'.

workspaceDomain optional

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

Output

query required
total required
matches required
page optional
pageCount optional

FAQ

Full-text search across the workspace's messages, supporting Slack's modifiers (from:@user, in:#channel, before:/after:date, "exact phrase"). One page per call. Requires login.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/slack.com/search_messages, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/slack.com/search_messages
You do not need one. "Search Slack messages" drives the real slack.com pages in a browser, so it works whether or not slack.com offers an API for this.
Required: query. Optional: page, sort, count, sortDir, workspaceDomain.
It returns page, query, total, matches, pageCount.
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/search_messages, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/slack.com/search_messages
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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