POST /chat.update

Updates a message.

Servers

https://slack.com/api

Request headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
`Content-Type`	String	Yes	The media type of the request body. Default value: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
`token`	String	Yes	Authentication token. Requires scope: `chat:write`

Request body fields

Name	Type	Required	Description
`parse`	String	No	Change how messages are treated. Defaults to `client`, unlike `chat.postMessage`. Accepts either `none` or `full`. If you do not specify a value for this field, the original value set for the message will be overwritten with the default, `client`.
`channel`	String	Yes	Channel containing the message to be updated.
`text`	String	No	New text for the message, using the default formatting rules. It's not required when presenting `blocks` or `attachments`.
`ts`	String	Yes	Timestamp of the message to be updated.
`as_user`	String	No	Pass true to update the message as the authed user. Bot users in this context are considered authed users.
`attachments`	String	No	A JSON-based array of structured attachments, presented as a URL-encoded string. This field is required when not presenting `text`. If you don't include this field, the message's previous `attachments` will be retained. To remove previous `attachments`, include an empty array for this field.
`link_names`	String	No	Find and link channel names and usernames. Defaults to `none`. If you do not specify a value for this field, the original value set for the message will be overwritten with the default, `none`.
`blocks`	String	No	A JSON-based array of structured blocks, presented as a URL-encoded string. If you don't include this field, the message's previous `blocks` will be retained. To remove previous `blocks`, include an empty array for this field.

How to start integrating

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