Slack URL to open a channel from browser

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itmss://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/hitchhikers-guide-to-galaxy/id315596797

This Spotify URL will open ALL by the Descendents in Spotify:

spotify:track:22feF2sbtGydtvx1OeLSih

Does Slack have a URL scheme to open a #channel in the Slack app from a link?

I want to put a link on my team's site that can link to the Slack #channel we use, for use by other people in the company.

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I don't think you currently can do this, but you should try asking their support team - they're plain great, and will give you a detailed answer. - mgarciaisaia
None of the responses seems to answer your question. Did you find a way to open your #channel in the Slack app? - user1941537

6 Answers

100
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The URI to open a specific channel in Slack app is:

slack://channel?id=<CHANNEL-ID>&team=<TEAM-ID>

You will probably need these resources of the Slack API to get IDs of your team and channel:

Here's the full documentation from Slack

101
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Sure you can:

https://<organization>.slack.com/messages/<channel>/

for example: https://tikal.slack.com/messages/general/ (of course that for accessing it, you must be part of the team)

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Referencing a channel within a conversation

To create a clickable reference to a channel in a Slack conversation, just type # followed by the channel name. For example: #general.

# mention of a channel

To grab a link to a channel through the Slack UI

To share the channel URL externally, you can grab its link by control-clicking (Mac) or right-clicking (Windows) on the channel name:

grabbing a channel's URL

The link would look like this:

https://yourteam.slack.com/messages/C69S1L3SS

Note that this link doesn't change even if you change the name of the channel. So, it is better to use this link rather than the one based on channel's name.

To compose a URL for a channel based on channel name

https://yourteam.slack.com/channels/<channel_name>

Opening the above URL from a browser would launch the Slack client (if available) or open the slack channel on the browser itself.

To compose a URL for a direct message (DM) channel to a user

https://yourteam.slack.com/channels/<username>
6
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You can use

slack://

in order to open the Slack desktop application. For example, on mac, I've run:

open slack://

from the terminal and it opens the Mac desktop Slack application. Still, I didn't figure out the URL that should be used for opening a certain team, channel or message.

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When I tried yorammi's solution I was taken to Slack, but not the channel I specified.

I had better luck with:

https://<organization>.slack.com/messages/#<channel>/

and

https://<organization>.slack.com/messages/<channel>/details/

Although, they were both still displayed in a browser window and not the app.

2
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This link opens the channel in the browser

https://<org-name>.slack.com/messages/<channel-name>

This link opens up the slack channel in the App

https://<org-name>.slack.com/archives/<channel-name>