Slack
Your app posts messages to a Slack channel through an incoming webhook: handy to hear about every sign-up or order, without a database.
Category : Notifications · Service website : slack.com
What you can do with it
Section titled “What you can do with it”- Hear about every sign-up or order
- Get form messages in a team channel
- App activity alerts
What the agent can do
Section titled “What the agent can do”- Post to the channel chosen when the webhook was created
- Test the URL with an empty message: nothing is posted
What it never does
Section titled “What it never does”- Read messages in your Slack workspace
- Post to another channel
- Show your key in the chat, in browser code or in logs
- Use it outside of this project’s app
Values to provide
Section titled “Values to provide”- Webhook URL (
SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL, secret: encrypted, read only by the app’s server) : Slack webhook URL, to post messages to a channel: api.slack.com/apps → your app → Incoming Webhooks → Add New Webhook. Where to find it
Add this connector
Section titled “Add this connector”- Mention it in your request (the + menu of the input → Connectors, or type
@), for example: “Add a contact form with @Slack”. - The agent adds the app server if needed, writes the code and asks you for missing values with a card in the chat.
- You can also save it once on the Highwind Connectors page: the connection then links to any project in one click. Technical id:
slack.
Billing
Section titled “Billing”Free
Learn more: Connectors overview and App secrets.