Unhandled request ({'type': 'event_callback', 'event': {'type': 'message'}}) --- [Suggestion] You can handle this type of event with the following listener function:

Thank you very much for responding, I think this answers most of my questions. So I have the following code:

tickerWant = text
data = yf.download(tickerWant, start="2021-09-5", end=d4)
    
data.to_csv(rf'C:\work\demo\data\{tickerWant}.csv')

in my case I want tickerWant to be whatever the ticker the user sends, so I can just do this correct:

def do_something(text):
      tickerWant = text
      data = yf.download(tickerWant, start="2021-09-5", end=d4)
      data.to_csv(rf'C:\work\demo\data\{tickerWant}.csv') 

and then use the def print_message function? EDIT: Problem has been fixed thank you very much for your patience in helping me 😃

since I need to get that value is there a command, can I use b = event.get(‘text’) in this case or is there a specific way? I am assuming that the user will only talk about tickers and use the correct format and will use a specific channel

If you mean that you want to listen for all messages that the user sends, we recommend using the @app.event('message') listener, accessing the message text as seen below:

@app.event('message')
def print_message(event):
  msg_txt = event['text']
  print(msg_txt)

To note: these message listeners will also pick up messages sent by apps, so if you want to filter those out, you can write some additional logic and return early if the event has a subtype of bot_message.

For the Home page issue, I was just confused as to what slack would consider home page

Usually, we think of the Home Tab as the “home page” for apps. This is where your users can find all useful and pertinent information related to your app. You can learn more about the Home Tab here.

As for a “home channel”, it’s entirely up to you which channel(s) you add your bot to! 🙂

Also is there a way use the text that user types in outside of the function as well? I am very new to coding as well

You can definitely do so! One way to accomplish this is by using a helper function. This allows you to pass the message text elsewhere (outside of the listener function) to process.

The below snippet is an edit of the above and might be a good place for you to start from:

@app.event('message')
def print_message(event):
  msg_txt = event['text']
  do_something(msg_txt)

def do_something(text):
  print(f"Doing something with {text}!")

Let us know if the above resolves the issue(s) raised!