# Connecting to Slack bot for reporting?

**URL:** <https://community.parabola.io/t/connecting-to-slack-bot-for-reporting/334>\
**Category:** Ask a question\
**Tags:** Using-APIs, Building-Flows\
**Created:** [April 13, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/connecting-to-slack-bot-for-reporting/334 "2020-04-13T22:52:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![temirlan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/temirlan/32/44_2.png) [@temirlan](https://community.parabola.io/u/temirlan)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/connecting-to-slack-bot-for-reporting/334/1 "2020-04-13T22:52:27Z")

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Hey Parabolians 👋Has anyone connecting their flows to Slack API? I want to send flow updates and KPI reports there. I haven’t made a Slack bot before, so not sure if that’s difficult or easy step either.

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**Author:** ![temirlan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/temirlan/32/44_2.png) [@temirlan](https://community.parabola.io/u/temirlan)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/connecting-to-slack-bot-for-reporting/334/2 "2020-04-13T23:10:49Z")

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Also, @sachi or team, would love to know what step to take to send these stats in this Slack step!

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/parabola/original/1X/5658770547a806b5c463a1f0fbe0d4051a05d798.png)

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**Author:** ![sachi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/sachi/32/10_2.png) [@sachi](https://community.parabola.io/u/sachi)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/connecting-to-slack-bot-for-reporting/334/3 "2020-04-15T16:24:06Z")

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Hey Temirlan! Sorry for the delay. Yep, we have customers triggering Slack messages from Parabola!

Check out this [recipe](https://parabola.io/recipes/intercom-customer-engagement-summary).  
I know it’s not your exact use case, but it provides a good template to work off of.

In order to send a message to Slack, you need to create a column called “text” with the message you want to send. As you can see from the recipe, you’ll want to use the [Text Merge](https://parabola.io/transforms/text-merge) step for that.

And then, you’ll need to create a [Webhooks integration on Slack](https://slack.com/apps/A0F7XDUAZ-incoming-webhooks). Copy the API endpoint URL from Slack and make sure to include this at the end of the endpoint URL: `?parse=full`

Each row of your data will be sent as a separate Slack message.

As for the sending your flow stats to Slack, that’s not data we make available today. It’s an interesting use case though! Can you post this as [a feature request](https://community.parabola.io/c/feature-requests/12) and tell us more about how you’d use it?

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**Author:** ![temirlan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/temirlan/32/44_2.png) [@temirlan](https://community.parabola.io/u/temirlan)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/connecting-to-slack-bot-for-reporting/334/4 "2020-04-21T22:59:42Z")

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No worries on the delay Sachi. Thank you for this. Will post if I have any trouble!