NOTE: For this to work you need the Powerpack Licence as we are going to use the workflow feature.
- Go to https://api.slack.com/apps and create a new Slack App.
- Select "From Scratch", give your app a descriptive name and choose the workspace it is supposed to interact with (yes, this only works for one workspace).
- Now jump straight to "OAuth & Permissions"
- Scroll down to Scopes and add the following User Token Scopes: chat:write, users.profile:read, users.profile:write, users:write
- Now install the App to your workspace
- Grab the User OAuth Token continue to the Workflow installation in Alfred.
- Download the attached file and double click to install it
- Open Alfred preferences -> Workflows -> Click on the "Slack status" workflow -> Click on the second icon in the right corner -> In the Workflow Environment Variables box enter your User OAuth Token for the App you created beforehand and finally save and close Alfred
- Run search
- Type in "s" keyword
- You will see 4 default statuses (Available, Remote, Meeting, Vacationing), choose one or enter your custom status by first entering the emoji (without colons) followed by the text (separated with space) (e.g. poop What a lovely day)
- Hit enter!
- Navigate to your slack to check it out :)
Of course, just right click in the workflow box and a new "Input keyword" and "Arg and Vars utility" which you will connect to the keyword and script, just inspect one of the defaults.
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