app_mention

{
    "type": "app_mention",
    "user": "U061F7AUR",
    "text": "<@U0LAN0Z89> is it everything a river should be?",
    "ts": "1515449522.000016",
    "channel": "C0LAN2Q65",
    "event_ts": "1515449522000016"
}

This app event allows your app to subscribe to message events that directly mention your bot user.

Your Slack app must have a bot user configured and installed to use this event.

If a user mentions your app in a conversation that your app isn't party to, the user has the option to invite your app to the conversation. In that case, you'll receive an app_mention event for the invite.

You'll receive only the messages pertinent to your app with this event. If your app is mentioned but not part of a conversation (and not invited to join), you won't receive an event.

The app_mention event is not a message like the message.* event types. However, your app can treat its contents similarly.

Messages sent to your app in direct message conversations are not dispatched via app_mention, whether the app is explicitly mentioned or otherwise. Subscribe to message.im events to receive messages directed to your bot user in direct message conversations.

Example event payloads

app_mention events are just like other message events sent over the Events API, but their type indicates app_mention.

Whether your app has just been invited to a channel or is receiving a mention after it's already in a channel, the format and shape is the same.

Read on for more detail on the two scenarios with full Events API envelopes.

• App mention that invites your app to a channel
• App mention when your app is already in channel

App mention that invites your app to a channel

When your app is directly invited to a channel as a result of being mentioned, you'll receive that inciting message as an app_mention:

{
    "token": "ZZZZZZWSxiZZZ2yIvs3peJ",
    "team_id": "T061EG9R6",
    "api_app_id": "A0MDYCDME",
    "event": {
        "type": "app_mention",
        "user": "W021FGA1Z",
        "text": "You can count on <@U0LAN0Z89> for an honorable mention.",
        "ts": "1515449483.000108",
        "channel": "C0LAN2Q65",
        "event_ts": "1515449483000108"
    },
    "type": "event_callback",
    "event_id": "Ev0MDYHUEL",
    "event_time": 1515449483000108,
    "authed_users": [
        "U0LAN0Z89"
    ]
}

You'll need to monitor your app's channel membership separately from this event. Consider subscribing to member_joined_channel events too.

Standard app mention when your app is already in channel

Here's the happiest path: you're already part of a conversation and your app is mentioned. It can respond freely after receiving an event like this:

{
    "token": "ZZZZZZWSxiZZZ2yIvs3peJ",
    "team_id": "T061EG9R6",
    "api_app_id": "A0MDYCDME",
    "event": {
        "type": "app_mention",
        "user": "U061F7AUR",
        "text": "What is the hour of the pearl, <@U0LAN0Z89>?",
        "ts": "1515449522.000016",
        "channel": "C0LAN2Q65",
        "event_ts": "1515449522000016"
    },
    "type": "event_callback",
    "event_id": "Ev0LAN670R",
    "event_time": 1515449522000016,
    "authed_users": [
        "U0LAN0Z89"
    ]
}