Slack Comments API

The Comments API from Slack — 1 operation(s) for comments.

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slack-comments-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  version: '1.0'
  title: Slack Admin Access Comments API
  description: "The Slack Admin API is a set of privileged endpoints\x14primarily under admin.* with related SCIM and Audit Logs APIs\x14that lets Enterprise Grid owners and admins automate organization\x11 wide management and governance. It covers user lifecycle (provision, suspend, assign roles), workspace and channel administration across workspaces (create, move, archive channels; manage membership and settings), app governance (approve/deny or allowlist/ban apps and install them to workspaces), invite request handling, and security/compliance controls such as information barriers, session and authentication policies, and org\x11level analytics exports. These APIs require elevated admin scopes and are commonly used to power automated onboarding/offboarding, centralized channel and app controls, and integrations with identity, ITSM, and compliance systems."
tags:
- name: Comments
paths:
  /files.comments.delete:
    post:
      tags:
      - Comments
      description: Deletes an existing comment on a file.
      externalDocs:
        description: API method documentation
        url: https://api.slack.com/methods/files.comments.delete
      operationId: postFilesCommentsDelete
      parameters:
      - name: token
        in: header
        description: 'Authentication token. Requires scope: `files:write:user`'
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                file:
                  type: string
                  description: File to delete a comment from.
                id:
                  type: string
                  description: The comment to delete.
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                file:
                  type: string
                  description: File to delete a comment from.
                id:
                  type: string
                  description: The comment to delete.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Standard success response is very simple
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                title: files.comments.delete schema
                required:
                - ok
                type: object
                properties:
                  ok:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/defs_ok_true'
                additionalProperties: false
                description: Schema for successful response files.comments.delete method
              example:
                ok: true
        default:
          description: Standard failure response when used with an invalid token
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                title: files.comments.delete error schema
                required:
                - error
                - ok
                type: object
                properties:
                  callstack:
                    type: string
                    description: 'Note: PHP callstack is only visible in dev/qa'
                  error:
                    type: string
                    enum:
                    - cant_delete
                    - comment_not_found
                    - not_authed
                    - invalid_auth
                    - account_inactive
                    - no_permission
                    - invalid_arg_name
                    - invalid_array_arg
                    - invalid_charset
                    - invalid_form_data
                    - invalid_post_type
                    - missing_post_type
                    - invalid_json
                    - json_not_object
                    - request_timeout
                    - upgrade_required
                  ok:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/defs_ok_false'
                additionalProperties: false
                description: Schema for error response files.comments.delete method
              example:
                error: file_not_found
                ok: false
      security:
      - slackAuth:
        - files:write:user
      summary: Slack Post Files Comments Delete
      x-api-evangelist-processing:
        GenerateOperationSummariesFromPath: true
        PascalCaseOperationSummaries: true
        CaselCaseOperationIds: true
        ChooseTags: true
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK