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---
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title: Slack Bot Setup
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description: "How to set up a Slack bot to automatically answer questions"
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---
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## How it works
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Danswer will connect to your Slack instance via Web Sockets, and listen for relevant messages.
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Slack will only send us messages for channels where DanswerBot has been manually added to. For all
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channel messages (not messages inside a thread), Danswer will consider the question, search through
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all available documents, and try to come up with an answer. If it finds an answer, it will respond to
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the message in the **thread** as follows:
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Since we are using Web Sockets, Danswer is able to initiate the connection. This means that this is able
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to work even if you are running Danswer inside a firewall protected VPC.
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## Setting up
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### Authorization
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**Note:** You must be an admin of the Slack workspace to set up the Slack bot.
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1. Navigate and sign in to [https://api.slack.com/apps](https://api.slack.com/apps).
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2. Create a new Slack app:
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- Click the **Create New App** button in the top right.
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- Select **From an app manifest** option.
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- Select the relevant workspace from the dropdown and click **Next**.
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3. Copy the following manifest into the text box
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```
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display_information:
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name: DanswerBot
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description: I help answer questions!
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features:
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bot_user:
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display_name: DanswerBot
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always_online: true
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oauth_config:
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scopes:
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bot:
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- channels:history
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- channels:read
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- groups:history
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- channels:join
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- app_mentions:read
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- chat:write
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settings:
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event_subscriptions:
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bot_events:
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- app_mention
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- message.channels
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interactivity:
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is_enabled: true
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org_deploy_enabled: false
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socket_mode_enabled: true
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token_rotation_enabled: false
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```
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5. Click the **Create** button.
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6. Generate an `App-level Token`, following the guide [here](https://api.slack.com/apis/connections/socket#token).
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Add the `connections:write` scope to the app-level token and click **Generate**.
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Copy this somewhere safe for now, as you will need this later to initiate the Web Socket-based connection to Slack.
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7. In the app page, navigate to the **OAuth & Permissions** tab under the **Features** header.
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8. Under **OAuth Tokens for Your Workspace**, select `Install to Workspace` and Allow the app.
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9. Copy the **Bot User OAuth Token**, this will be needed later to enable us to respond to messages as DanswerBot.
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### Setting Env variables
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**Note:** Currently, Slack bot setup is only suppported out of the box for the docker compose based deployment.
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Please contact us if you are deploying Danswer in some other way, we'd be happy to help you set up the Slack bot!
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1. [OPTIONAL] SSH into the box where you are hosting Danswer. If running locally, ignore this step.
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2. Navigate to `danswer/deployment/docker_compose.
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3. Open up the `.env` file using your favorite editor and add the following two lines:
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```
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DANSWER_BOT_SLACK_APP_TOKEN=<APP_TOKEN_HERE>
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DANSWER_BOT_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=<BOT_TOKEN_HERE>
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```
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4. Restart the background service with one of the following:
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```
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# if running locally
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docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml -p danswer-stack up background -d --force-recreate
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# if running on a machine in the cloud for production use
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docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml -p danswer-stack up background -d --build --force-recreate
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```
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5. Wait a few minutes for the background component to restart, and voila you're done!
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You should be able to add DanswerBot to a channel of your choosing,
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ask a question, and get a response!
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