Botkit: Listen for File Shares in Slack

[JonnyBoy333]

I didn't see it in the documentation but I'm wondering if there is a method for listening for file shares. There is a 'file_share' event listed in the Slack documentation but I'm not sure if there is anything in botkit that listens for those type of events. Something like controller.on('file_share', function(bot, message) {}) maybe?

[jonchurch]

Under Slack Events API, Botkit triggers an event named after the message.type of the request received from Slack. This fires for Events API requests not of type message.type = 'message'.

You can listen to 'file_shared' events with the permissions files:read, I believe you will only get the file id from this event, and will have to do an api call to retrieve the actual file data.

[JonnyBoy333]

Ah yes, I just read that piece in the docs that you can use any event not just the ones in the example :). This works great. Now I have a follow up/trickier question.

I have an interactive message setup where the user says something and they get the buttons and then after selecting one I call controller.on('interactive_message_callback'.... I would like to be able to do something where if they drop a file and share it with my bot I want to change the interactive message to include data from the file, kind of like attaching a file to an email. Is there a way I can pass the message from the controller.on('file_shared'... function over to the controller.on('interactive_message_callback'... that originally created the buttons?

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