Slack Platform Blog

Important Changes to Files in the Web API

We are about to launch changes that will affect apps built on the Slack Web or RTM APIs. If that applies to you, continue reading! If not, feel free to continue on your merry way.

What’s Changing

New and Improved OAuth Scopes

If you’ve ever built something with the Slack API, you know that our OAuth scopes have been very open, and in fact they mirror the permissions of a Slack user’s account. That’s swell if your app needs to access a broad data set. However, for apps that do simple tasks (like…