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Cecilia Stallsmith
@cecistalls · Platform @ SlackHQ
We've got a new API for Slack developers!
The Events API is a new way to build apps that respond to activity as it happens, in Slack. Previously, the only way to make apps that respond to activity in Slack was using the RTM API. Although the RTM API is great for our own clients, it provides too much data for apps to handle well and is difficult to scale.
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Cecilia Stallsmith
@cecistalls · Platform @ SlackHQ
We've got a new API for Slack developers!
The Events API is a new way to build apps that respond to activity as it happens, in Slack. Previously, the only way to make apps that respond to activity in Slack was using the RTM API. Although the RTM API is great for our own clients, it provides too much data for apps to handle well and is difficult to scale.
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
Awesome! @sean_a_rose tell us about the Slack Event API :)
What wonderful things can people do with it?
Aaron Taylor
@ataylor0123 · Dir. Cloud Services, Co-Founder @ Diffeo
This is super exciting! We'll definitely be using this for the Slack integration we have built out as part of @metasearch!
Paolo Perazzo
@sivola · Building products
This is great - it opens up so many new opportunities for devs and ultimately for users.
Slack as a platform is becoming more powerful day after day - thank you!