Announcements API

Announcements API Config

Slack config

• Create a slack app

• Go to "Oauth and permissions" page

• Scroll down to "scopes" and make sure channels:history is included

• Scroll up to "Oauth tokens & Redirect URLs" and click "install app" to install the app on the Treehacks workspace; then get the oauth access token.

• Create a channel for live site announcements. Go to the channel in the slack website, then copy the channel ID from the URL:

• Set the following environment variables in Heroku and/or your .env file:

SLACK_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN= ...
SLACK_ANNOUNCEMENTS_CHANNEL_ID= ...

• Then, go to the /announcements endpoint to view the announcements!