You can find your team_id (and user_id) there.ĭo the same for channels.list. You land on auth.test: Ĭhoose the team you want to test and click Test Method. The answer marked correct here does not work for me, but I may have found an even easier way with test tokens. All you have to do is open slack via the web, go to the specific channel, and you can see the url change to something close to the screenshot above. You just need to know where to look )Īs of July 2019, it seems like the team id and the channel id is already being shown via the web.Īs you can see in the screenshot, the 2nd to the last node is the team id (prefixed with 'T') and the last node is the channel id (prefixed with 'C'). myslack55 for ) and that should find you the team id.īasically, it's all hidden in plain sight. If you inspect any of the channels in the sidebar, you can see they are ordered as list elements each containing the channel id in the class name.įor the team id, you can open the entire source of the slack web client and CTRL-F for your team_domain (e.g. The tag that links to a user tends to include a data-member-id attribute, the content of which is the user id. Whenever I wanted to just find out quickly what the relevant ids are for a specific team, I just opened the Slack web client and inspected the relevant elements. Slightly different answer to the existing ones.

Simply open the dev-tools of your browser, switch to the 'Console' tab and enter the text boot_data.team_id into the console. ' - to get your own user ID via the UI, you have to click the Team-Logo in top-left corner and then choose 'Profile & Account' (this is not included in the screenshot) Then open the '.' menu and you see the option (3) 'Copy Member-ID. Or in slack: (1) Click on the users name and choose (2) 'Show Profile'. The user ID can be found in the HTML attribute 'data-member-id': To find a user ID you need to open your browser dev-tools console and inspect the user-link in the sidebar. The channel ID is displayed in the browser URL: Open the slack webpage () and then simply open the channel.

Here is the easiest way to manually find the slack IDs 1.

Slack client source