Can't retrieve user_info and team_info with bot scope

[AlphaB]

Hi, I'm building a bot application for Slack. The only scope that it requests is bot. And I can't retrieve user_info and team_info because this gem is using token instead of using bot_access_token to retrieve this information. I can make a PR. Should we discuss before I start fixing it?

[jmanian]

I just ran into this same problem. Did you ever write a solution @AlphaB?

Our workaround has been to ask for users:read,team:read,bot so that it is able to retrieve user_info and team_info with the token, but this is far from ideal because the user sees a big yellow warning on the Slack auth page as a result.

[AlphaB]

Hi @jmanian. I didn't find any normal solution for this problem. Asking for users:read and team:read can cause some question from Slack team, when they will approve your application to the Slack App Directory. So the simplest solution for me was to use a bot token from omniauth for a simple http request to users.info and team.info methods with Net::HTTP.

[jmanian]

It doesn't seem like it would be too tricky to fix. But I'm actually back on the 2.3.0 release with my application, so I need to migrate to the latest code (which looks like it might break some things in my app) before trying to write a fix 😵