Slack URL to open a channel from browser

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This iTunes URL will open The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy in your iTunes      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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Sure you can   https    lt organization gt  slack com messages  lt channel gt    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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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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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     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     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  lt channel name gt    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  lt username gt

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The URI to open a specific channel in Slack app is   slack   channel id  lt CHANNEL-ID gt  amp team  lt TEAM-ID gt    You will probably need these resources of the Slack API to get IDs of your team and channel    GET https   slack com api team info GET https   slack com api channels list exclude archived 1   Here s the full documentation from Slack

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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    lt organization gt  slack com messages   lt channel gt    and  https    lt organization gt  slack com messages  lt channel gt  details   Although  they were both still displayed in a browser window and not the app

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