How to Deep Link into Slack

If you need to make a link that goes to a specific channel in Slack, use this guide.  For full details, see: Deep Linking

The resulting URL will follow this pattern: slack://channel?team={TEAM_ID}&id={CHANNEL_ID}

Step-by-step guide

To link to a specific channel

1. Open the desired Slack channel in the Slack web app.  The URL will be something like: https://app.slack.com/client/TFKJPF34M/CFKCRHW9G
   
   

2. Our TEAM_ID = TFKJPF34M
   
   

3. The CHANNEL_ID = the last string in the URL when viewing your channel in the Slack web application.

   

4. The deep link URL is slack://channel?team={TEAM_ID}&id={CHANNEL_ID}
   
   

5. You should end up with a URL similar to this:
   slack://channel?team=TFKJPF34M&id=CFKCRHW9G (this opens the #general channel in the Slack application)