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Edit Slack message

Automatically edit Slack message on slack.com. Edit one of your own messages by channel (name or id) and message ts, replacing its text. Returns the channel, ts and new text. Requires login.

Input

ts required

The message's ts.

text required

New message text.

channel required

Channel name/#name or id (C…/D…).

workspaceDomain optional

Workspace host. Defaults to the active workspace.

Output

ok required
ts required
channel required
text optional

FAQ

Edit one of your own messages by channel (name or id) and message ts, replacing its text. Returns the channel, ts and new text. Requires login.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/slack.com/update_message, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/slack.com/update_message
You do not need one. "Edit Slack message" drives the real slack.com pages in a browser, so it works whether or not slack.com offers an API for this.
Required: channel, ts, text. Optional: workspaceDomain.
It returns ok, ts, text, channel.
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 makes changes on slack.com, like sending, posting, booking or buying something.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/slack.com/update_message, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/slack.com/update_message
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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