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Want to set your Slack status every morning when you start work, or every evening when you're out for the day? Zapier can do that for you. Just add the time you want this Zap to run—and choose whether it should run on weekends, too—then put your standard Slack status. Zapier will set it for you every day! Learn more in our 

Schedule is a native Zapier app you can use for recurring tasks. Trigger an action every day of the month, every day of the week or every single day. You can also select the hour of the day. If you're a developer, this is similar to a crontab, cronjob or cron.

Schedule by Zapier

Triggers at user-defined intervals (days, weeks, months)

Custom Frequency

Every Day

Every Hour

Triggers every month, on the day(s) selected.

Every Month

Triggers every week, on the day(s) selected.

Every Week

Slack is a platform for team communication: everything in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. Offering instant messaging, document sharing and knowledge search for modern teams.

Triggers when a new message is posted to any public channel.

New Public Message Posted Anywhere

New Channel

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #channel you choose.

New Message Posted to Channel

Triggers when a custom emoji has been added to a team.

New Team Custom Emoji

Triggers when a new file is uploaded to your workspace.

New File

Triggers when a username or highlight word is mentioned in a public #channel.

New Mention

Triggers when a new message is found that matches the query.

New Message From Query

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #private-channel or multi-dm.

New Message Posted to Private Channel

Triggers when a Message is pushed from Slack.

New Pushed Message

Triggers when a reaction (aka reactji) is added to a message in a public #channel.

New Reaction Added

New Saved Message

Triggers when a new Slack user is created / first joins your org.

New User

Finds a Slack message using the Slack Search feature.

Find Message

Finds a user by matching against their email instead of their username.

Find User by Email

Find User by ID

Finds a user by matching against their real name instead of their username.

Find User by Name

Find User by Username

Adds a reminder for yourself or a teammate, just like the `/remind` slash command.

Add Reminder

Invite an existing User to an existing Channel. You must be a member of the channel to invite someone to it.

Invite User to Channel

Posts a message to the specific #channel you choose. Message delivery can be scheduled for later.

Send Channel Message

Sends a direct message to a user or yourself from the Slackbot. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Direct Message

Create Channel

Post a new message to a private channel you choose. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Private Channel Message

Set Channel Topic

Update basic profile fields such as name or title

Update Profile

Sets your Slack status to the given text and emoji.

Set Status

Invite a new User to your Slack workspace. Uses legacy tokens.

Invite New User

Custom Actions (Beta)

This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.

API Request (Beta)

Set Slack status on an automatic daily schedule

Sometimes there's no time to let the team know you're busy during back to back calls. Zapier can help ensure your Slack status is up to date during your next meeting—or whatever event—once you set up this automation. From then on, Zapier will set your Slack status to indicate you're busy 5 minutes before the Google Calendar event starts, and clear the status once it ends, saving you from the trouble of awkwardly trying to tell the team you can't get back to them at the moment.  

Google Calendar lets you organize your schedule and share events with co-workers and friends. With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of your daily schedule.

New Calendar

Triggers when an event is cancelled or deleted.

Event Cancelled

Event Ended

Triggers when a specified amount of time before an event starts.

Event Start

Triggers when an event is created or updated (except when it's cancelled).

New or Updated Event

New Event

Triggers when an event is created that matches a search.

New Event Matching Search

Find Event

Finds a specific event by its ID in your calendar.

Retrieve Event by ID

Finds multiple events in your calendar as line items.

Find Multiple Events

Find or Create Event

Invites one or more person to an existing event.

Add Attendee(s) to Event

Create Calendar

Delete Event

Create Detailed Event

Create an event from a piece of text. Google parses the text for date, time, and description info.

Quick Add Event

Updates an event. Only filled fields are updated.

Update Event

Update Slack status during new Google Calendar events

Keep a running log of your team’s conversation without switching interfaces or copying-and-pasting. This Zap automatically generates an item in a specified Notion database whenever you click the “Push to Zapier” button from a message in Slack.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team.

Notion

Triggers when a new item is created in a database.

New Database Item

Triggers when a new (non-database item) page is created your workspace or selected subpage.

New Page

Triggers when an item in a selected database is updated.

Updated Database Item

Updated Page

Triggers when a page or database item is updated. Optionally select a parent page or database to monitor.

Updated Page or Database Item

Retrieves the children of a block, with any text content rendered as Markdown.

Retrieve Block Children

Retrieves a list of un-resolved comments from a Page as line-items.

Get Page Comments

Searches for an item in a database by property.

Find Database Item

Find Page (By Title)

Retrieves the comments for the provided page, or creates one if no comments are found.

Find or Create Comment

Searches for a Database Item matching the provided query, or creates one if it does not exist.

Find or Create Database Item

Add Comment

Create Database Item

Create Page

Add Content to Page

Update Database Item

Add new pushed messages in Slack to Notion as database items

If you find tasks in your team's Slack channels but track them in Google Tasks, this Zap will streamline your process. Here's how it works: 

Google Tasks is a very simple task list. Works inside Gmail, Android, and Calendar seamlessly.

Google Tasks

Triggers when a task is completed in a specific task list.

New Completed Task

New Task

Triggers when a new task list is created.

New Task List

Find Task

List all tasks by task list, results will be in a line-item format.

Get Tasks by List

Find or Create Task.

Create Task List

Create Task

Update Task

Create a new task in Google Tasks when reactions are added in Slack

Don't worry about keeping up with Slack notifications all day long--or about missing something important in Slack. Use this Zap to get a digest of Slack mentions delivered to you as a direct message on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. That way, you can rest assured that you'll never miss an important item again.

Get a digest of new Slack mentions sent as direct messages

Want to get notified when a new event is scheduled? Now you can with this Google Calendar to Slack automation. Set it up, and each time a new event is created in Google Calendar, Zapier will send you a direct message in Slack. You'll never forget an important event again!

Get Slackbot notifications for new Google Calendar events

"Oh no, I'll be late!" Get rid of this occurance with this Slackbot Google Calendar integration that reminds you of upcoming events. You can customize what information shows up from Google Calendar, pulling in the start time, end time, location and more.

Get Slackbot notifications for approaching Google Calendar events

If you ever needed to keep certain Google Calendars up to date with each other, this integration can help. Automatically create a copy of a new Google Calendar event into any different Google calendar of your choosing. 

Copy new Google Calendar events to a different Google Calendar

This integration creates a new Google Calendar event whenever a new webhook is received to a specified URL. This Zap will then grab the webhook data to add a new event to your Google Calendar!

Webhooks simply POST data (or JSON) to a specific URL every time we see something new. Webhooks can also accept data (or JSON) to kick off a workflow in Zapier.

Webhooks by Zapier

Retrieve Poll

Wait for a new POST, PUT, or GET to a Zapier URL.

Catch Hook

Wait for a new POST, PUT, or GET to a Zapier URL. Gives the request body unparsed (max 2 MB) and also includes headers.

Catch Raw Hook

Fire off a custom request by providing raw details. Very flexible but unforgiving.

Custom Request

Fire off a single GET request with optional querystrings.

Fire off a single POST request as a form or JSON.

POST

Fire off a single PUT request as a form or JSON.

Generate Google Calendar events from newly-caught webhooks

Never forget that someone has time off once you activate this integration. Once it's active, this Zap will automatically add each new BambooHR time off request as an event in your Google Calendar.

BambooHR is an online human resources software service for small and midsized businesses.

BambooHR

New Employee Started

New Employee

Triggers when a company report changes. Works best with reports sorted by a date field in descending order.

Changed Report

Triggers when a new time off is found for the selected conditions. Limited to those employees and time off types that you have view access to.

New Time Off

Triggers when a new time off request is created by an employee whose requests you're able to approve.

New Time Off Request

Triggers when specific employee fields are updated.

Updated Employee

Find Employee

Find or Create Employee

Create Employee

Get a summary of who's out of the office on a given date.

Get Summary of Who's Out

Approve, deny, or cancel a time off request.

Respond to Time Off Request

Update Employee

Upload Employee File

Add new BambooHR time off requests as Google Calendar events

Send content from Slack messages to any chosen destination with a webhook and this Slack-Zapier webhook integration. Once active, any messages posted to a specified Slack channel will be sent to your specified webhook URL, helping you keep track of conversations where it's most convenient for you.

POST new Slack messages elsewhere

This integration makes it easy to trigger an email via Gmail for updates in a Google Spreadsheet. You can trigger an email based on any update or specific updates to a certain column. Get step-by-step directions in our 

Create, edit, and share spreadsheets wherever you are with Google Sheets, and get automated insights from your data.

Google Sheets

Triggers when a new row is added to the bottom of a Google Team Drive spreadsheet.

New Spreadsheet Row (Team Drive)

Triggers when a new row is added to the bottom of a spreadsheet.

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