I want to find thread message and delete it with slack-api

Question

Private messages or Direct messages can be found with methods such as im.history and converstation.history .

How to find thread message? I want to find thread messages and delete them.

Answer 1

Finding thread messages

You need to use the conversations.history method to retrieve the parent message of a thread.

And then the conversations.replies method to retrieve the thread including all thread messages for a parent message.

You can detect a parent message by looking on the ts and thread_ts properties:

When a message has a thread_ts value and it matches the same message's ts, the message is a thread parent.

For more information check out the official documentation: Finding message threads in the wild

Deleting thread messages

You can delete a thread message the same way as with normal message using the chat.delete method.