Why am I getting gibberish for http request body?

Question

I'm trying to create a Slack bot that uses AWS lambda api gateway as the backend. However, the event payload I'm getting has an incomprehensible payload body.

In the example im following the body should be like

Am I supposed to decode the body somehow?

I'm following this guide exactly but I'm implementing the lambda function in python. I just don't know why my event isn't even getting the proper body. https://youtu.be/XgFVzBNgidQ

Answer 1

The payload isn't gibberish it's just base64-encoded and can be decoded using a library or method that supports base64-decoding. Here's the decoded value:

token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&team_id=TSQ1S1YKB&team_domain=dankscape&channel_id=CSQ1S2D2M&channel_name=bot&user_id=UT078Q6BA&user_name=the.dankscape&command=%2Fecho2&text=hi+spec&response_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhooks.slack.com%2Fcommands%2FTSQ1S1YKB%2F921356743414%2Fv3ltAkqOhjOU8HyLiOiMmJkG&trigger_id=908962933297.908060066657.da505f8459f1102a090444d8934e188b