Slack Delete

Slack Delete

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Delete a Slack channel message

Permanently removes a message by channel and timestamp. Requires chat: write; deletion cannot be undone.

yaml
type: io.kestra.plugin.slack.app.chats.Delete

Delete a message

yaml
id: slack_delete_message
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: delete_message
    type: io.kestra.plugin.slack.app.chats.Delete
    token: "{{ secret('SLACK_TOKEN') }}"
    channel: "#general"
    timestamp: "{{ outputs.previous_task.timestamp }}"

Post and delete a message

yaml
id: slack_post_and_delete
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: post_message
    type: io.kestra.plugin.slack.app.chats.Post
    token: "{{ secret('SLACK_TOKEN') }}"
    channel: "#general"
    messageText: "Temporary message"

  - id: delete_message
    type: io.kestra.plugin.slack.app.chats.Delete
    token: "{{ secret('SLACK_TOKEN') }}"
    channel: "#general"
    timestamp: "{{ outputs.post_message.timestamp }}"
Properties

Channel containing the message

Channel ID or name where the target message exists.

Message timestamp to delete

Slack ts of the message; must belong to the specified channel.

Slack token

Reference (ref) of the pluginDefaults to apply to this task.

Timestamp of deleted message