Get Slack username via oAuth API

Question

I am using the eAlack oAuth API to integrate my application with Slack. Following these instructions I do the following:

• A call https://slack.com/oauth/authorize , passing my client_id, and the area "identify, read, send → I get the code
• Call https://slack.com/api/oauth.access with identifier, secret, code → I get an access token
• Now I want the user descriptor (name) → to look at the user.info documentation , I need to provide my token, and the user ID, which I don’t have.

Where / how can I get the user id? What am I missing?

Answer 1

You have access to this information at the auth.test endpoint . It will also return the team ID, user ID, and username.