Slack API Check Admin Status

Question

Using slack oauth api i setup an app for user to login, the app is accessable to both admin & user, the problem is that even calling auth.access, i am able to get token details, but there i cannot find any way to find if the logined user is admin or not, response is same for both admin & normal user. response from auth.access

{
   "ok": true, 
   "user_id": "UNxxxxxxx', 
   "access_token": "xoxp-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx-......xx", 
   "bot": {
       "bot_access_token": "xoxb-xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", 
       "bot_user_id": "Uxxxxxxxx"
   }, 
   "team_id": "Txxxxxxxxx", 
   "scope": "identify,bot,channels:read,users:read...", 
   "team_name": "Team Name"
}

Acontz Acontz · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-10T05:49:32

You could compare the user's ID with their entry in the users.list API method. Each user has elements for is_owner and is_admin.

Here's a shortened version of the example response from the page:

{
    "ok": true,
    "members": [
        {
            "id": "U023BECGF",
            "team_id": "T021F9ZE2",
            "name": "bobby",
            ...
            "is_admin": true,
            "is_owner": true,
        },
        ...
    ]
}

Slack API Check Admin Status

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