Create Hyperlink in Slack

Question

Is there a way to create a hyperlink without it auto resolving   I simply want some text I type to be clickable to some url when I post in slack   I don t see a way to do this yet

User · Answer

I am not sure if this is still bothering you but take a look at this page for slack text formatting:

https://api.slack.com/docs/message-formatting#linking_to_urls

For example using Python and the slack API:

from slackclient import SlackClient
slack_client = SlackClient(your_slack_token)
link_as_text_example = '<http://www.hyperlinkcode.com/|Hyperlink Code>'
slack_client.api_call("chat.postMessage", channel=channel_to_post, text=link_as_text_example , as_user=True)

You can also send a more advance JSON following the link: https://api.slack.com/docs/message-attachments

User · Answer

Yes  Slack has the ability to hyperlink words  as long as Format messages with markup is unchecked under Preferences  gt  Advanced to show the formatting toolbar  According to the documentation  start out with one of these    Select text  then click the  link icon in the formatting toolbar Select text  then press  ShiftU on Mac or CtrlShiftU on Windows Linux    Then do this   Copy the link you d like to share and paste it in the empty field under Link  then click Save    What follows is how this answer used to read when it first became so famous  It was correct until about February 2020  No  As a couple of commenters said  and as the Slack documentation says   Note  It   s not possible to hyperlink words in a Slack message

User · Answer

Recently it became possible  but with an odd workaround    To do this you must first create text with the desired hyperlink in an editor that supports rich text formatting  This can be an advanced text editor  web browser  email client  web-development IDE  etc    Then copypaste the text from the editor or rendered HTML from browser  or other   E g  in the example below I copypasted the head of this StackOverflow page  As you may see  the hyperlink have been copied correctly and is clickable in the message  checked on Mac Desktop  browser  and iOS apps      On Mac  I was able to compose the desired link in the native Pages app as shown below  When you are done  copypaste your text into Slack app  This is the probably easiest way on Mac OS     On Windows  I have a strong suspicion that MS Word will do the same trick  but unfortunately I don t have an installed instance to check   Universal  Create text in an online editor  such as Google Documents  Use Insert -  Link  modify the text and web URL  then copypaste into Slack

User · Answer

I feel like none of these messages quite answer the question still  See - https   api slack com docs message-attachments   It requires you to put the link in an attachment  Hyperlinking is still not allowed in the body of the message               attachments                                                   text      lt https   honeybadger io path to event  ReferenceError  - UI is not   defined                                 ReferenceError will be a hyperlink

User · Answer

Slack now supports hyperlinks natively in the message composer using the Link button or shortcuts    Mac  cmd shift U Windows Linux  ctrl shift U   https   slack com help articles 202288908-Format-your-messages-Format-your-messages

User · Answer

you can try quoting it which will keep the link as text  see the code blocks section  https   get slack help hc en-us articles 202288908-Format-your-messages code-blocks

User · Answer

I know you wanted only a hypertext link  but if you copy  amp  paste a link address into Slack that does work very nicely  i e  if referring to VersionOne ticket number  V1 mouseover the ticket window to open the mouseover window  then right click on the ticket number for the option to  copy link address   then in Slack paste  It ll paste the full ticket URL but then it shows a nice summary of the ticket number and name and you can click it to go right into the ticket

User · Answer

python  x    http   xxxxxx  y    text title  text link     lt       gt   format x y      post text link in using python slack client

User · Answer

In addition to the  ShiftU CtrlShiftU solution  you can also add a link quickly by doing the following   Copy a URL to the clipboard Select the text in a slack message you are writing that you want to be a link Press  V on Mac or CtrlV  I couldn t find it documented anywhere  but it works  and seems very handy

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