Python-slack-sdk: Message is not being formatted and channels/names are not linked

[avinassh]

messages I am sending are not being formatted and channel and usernames are not being linked. I tried both RTM and also API call, in both cases it fails.

Here is my code:

from slackclient import SlackClient

token = 'token'
sc = SlackClient(token)
team_join_event = 'team_join'
message = ('Hi! \n\nPublic channel - <#C06VBR8UT|general>\n\n'
           'Private channel #sports.\n\n Admin - <@U06VBQ8TB|v>')

if sc.rtm_connect():
    user_id = 'U2T0SF1U0'
    response = sc.api_call('im.open', user=user_id)
    dm_channel_id = response['channel']['id']
    # sc.rtm_send_message(dm_channel_id, message)
    sc.api_call(
        'chat.postMessage', channel=dm_channel_id, text=message,
        link_names=1)
else:
    print ("Connection Failed, invalid token?")

Here is how it appears:

[nmat]

I have tested to use a similar way but a bit different.

message = "hello test, <#ID|general>" sc.api_call("chat.postMessage", channel=dm_channel_id, text=message)

This seems to work just fine. I had to make sure the ID was absolutely correct in order for the api_call to work though. Didn't use link_names=1 or anything just the way I wrote above.

[avinassh]

^you are right. I was using IDs of my slack team on the test one. No wonder it did not work.

Thank you! (:

[nmat]

@avinassh you are welcome!