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Create a slack team and slackbot(You can skip this section if you already have a slack bot API token)

Follow the below steps to create a slack team and then a slack bot. You can skip this step if you already have a team and are the admin.

Creating Slack team

  1. Open https://slack.com/
  2. Provide your email ID. Select Create New workspace.
  3. Check your email and enter the code to verify your email.
  4. Provide your name and set a password
  5. Add some details to your team in the next page
  6. Provide a company name
  7. Team URL should be unique - Also remember this URL - this is what is used to login to your slack instance
  8. Agree with the terms
  9. Skip the invite step
  10. You are up and running with your own instance of Slack.

Now that team is created, let us create a slack bot

Creating Slack bot

  1. Open your {team-URL}/apps (the one you created above). Ex: https://test-visual.slack.com/apps
  2. Search for bot in the search bar and select bots
  3. In the bots landing page click on Add configuration
  4. Provide a bot name. Ex: wolfpack-bot and click on Add Bot integration
  5. In the Setup instruction page: Copy and store the API Token. Ex: xoxb-22672546-n1X9APk3D0tfksr81NJj6VAM
  6. Save the integration
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