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Discover how to use GIPHY in Slack with this step-by-step guide. Learn how to add GIPHY to Slack, send GIFs, manage settings, avoid common pitfalls, and more.

How to use GIPHY in Slack: A step-by-step guide

A GIF is a great way to call attention to key terms in a conversation. With this integration, you can do that easily. Every time someone mentions a keyword on a Slack channel (for example, "deal" in #sales or "awesome" in #general), Zapier will automatically find a random GIF for it on GIPHY, and post it back to the channel right after, highlighting the mention with flair. 

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)

Only allow a Zap to proceed when a certain condition is met. For example, if you're sending a text message when you receive a new email, you could use a Filter that only sends a text message when the email received is from a certain address.

Set up rules to specify when this Zap can continue running.

Only continue if...

Filter by Zapier

Giphy is the best way to search, share, and discover GIFs on the Internet.

Giphy

Finds a random GIF that matches your specified keyword(s).

Find GIF

Post GIFs from GIPHY when keywords are mentioned in Slack

Welcome new members onto the team with a bit of fun! Once this automation is active, it will trigger with each new user you add to Slack, automatically searching for a "welcome" GIF on GIPHY and posting it to #general so they can start working with a bang!

Start a GIPHY GIF party for new Slack team members

Need a reminder that you're awesome? This bot randomly sends you a gif reminding you just how great you are.

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

Data isn't always in the format you need. Perhaps a date is in International format, but your app needs it in American format. Or maybe you need to Title Case a subject, truncate text for a Tweet, or turn Markdown text into HTML for your blog. Zapier's Formatter tool can help.

Formatter by Zapier

Work with dates and times to change formatting or add/subtract time (with line-item support).

Date / Time

Work with numeric data to do math operations, reformat currencies, and more (with line-item support).

Numbers

Work with text data to find & replace, capitalize, remove HTML, and more (with line-item support).

Text

Various utilities like "choose value from list" or "look up in table" (with line-item support).

Utilities

Put your Actions on hold for a specified amount of time before sending data to another app. You can set up scheduled emails, get notified of incomplete tasks, send automatic follow-ups, and automate other tasks on your timeline.

Delay by Zapier

Waits for a set amount of time before completing your Actions.

Delay For

Waits for a set amount of time after the last delay in a given queue. Used to deal with race conditions and rate-limiting.

Delay After Queue

Waits to run your Actions until a date or time that you choose.

How to use GIPHY in Slack: A step-by-step guide

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