And select the Slack workspace you want it added to: Next, enter a name for your app in the App Name field. In this example I’m just going to go with the From scratch option: This will open up a pop up window where you can select how you want to create your app ( From scratch or From an app manifest). Head over to the Your Apps page in Slack and click on the Create New App button: I promise, it’s not as scary or time-consuming as it may seem. I know, I know it sounds like it’s going to be a lot of work but we’re just going to be doing the bare minimum here to get this workaround up and running.

You've got this! In Slackįirst, we’re going to need to create an App in Slack. Plus, I’m going to share plenty of screenshots along the way to help break all the necessary steps down. If you’re thinking to yourself “Webhooks? Argh, this is going to be complicated ”, it’s ok. Webhooks are honestly not as scary as they may seem. Use a Webhooks by Zapier step to connect to Slack’s API and get a count of the number of reactions a message has had. We need to find a more efficient way to see how many reactions a Slack message has had.

We could keep a record of each reaction as it’s added by storing this information into a spreadsheet or database app of some kind and then do some calculations to get the current total, but that not really ideal. The Slack integration isn’t currently able to give us a count of the total number of reactions a message has had.

Slack reactions