Slack bots

3 bots in the directory · Reviewed July 2026

Slack operates 3 bots tracked in this directory. Each page below covers what the bot does and how to identify it.

Slackbot-LinkExpanding

Fetches metadata from shared links to create rich previews in Slack.

Operational

Slack-ImgProxy

Fetches and caches images posted in Slack channels.

Operational

Slackbot

Slack's general-purpose bot for API requests and integrations.

Operational

Control every Slack bot at once

robots.txt lets one rule group target multiple user-agents. These snippets cover all 3 Slack tokens in this directory. For finer control, set rules per bot on each bot's page.

Allow all Slack bots

User-agent: Slackbot-LinkExpanding
User-agent: Slack-ImgProxy
User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

Block all Slack bots

User-agent: Slackbot-LinkExpanding
User-agent: Slack-ImgProxy
User-agent: Slackbot
Disallow: /
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