Unable to send custom Emojis in message payload

[grndvl1]

Description

Unable to use custom emojis in a message. Is there a technique I am missing? Not sure why I can get this to work with the API but not with this action.

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[zimeg]

Hey @grndvl1 👋 Thanks for writing in about this! This seems unexpected to me, so I'm curious about the method you're using to post the message?

I'm finding that including custom emojis in either payload and slack-message seem to both work for me, both from a bot token and incoming webhook, so any other details would be helpful for troubleshooting!

[zimeg]

👀 Going to close this as stale - the latest @v2 version is now released! - since you're noticing this works with the API but not this action, though I'm still curious if this continues to happen in the latest release.

For future reference, this step sends a message with custom emoji in the current version:

- name: Send a message with custom emoji
  uses: slackapi/[email protected]
  with:
    errors: true
    method: chat.postMessage
    token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
    payload: |
      channel: ${{ env.SLACK_CHANNEL_ID }}
      text: "greetings :octocatted:"

Please feel free to comment or open a new issue if this seems to not continue to not work for you. I'd be interested in knowing of errors that might be returned too! 🙏