from slackclient import SlackClient from config import BOT_NAME, BOT_TOKEN if __name__ == '__main__': api_call = SlackClient(BOT_TOKEN).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 %s is %s' % (user['name'], user['id'])) else: print('Failed')