import os from slackclient import SlackClient BOT_NAME = 'break' slack_client = SlackClient("xoxb-146752022133-ChFrlR3ptyZEJ9uctmOEKL5Z") if __name__ == "__main__": api_call = slack_client.api_call("users.list") if api_call.get('ok'): # retrieve all users so we can find our bot users = api_call.get('members') for user in users: if 'name' in user and user.get('name') == BOT_NAME: print("Bot ID for '" + user['name'] + "' is " + user.get('id')) else: print("could not find bot user with the name " + BOT_NAME)