Access to user information.

[rolfwessels]

Hi,

I have been storing the userId in a database. I now want to send them a private message at random intervals. I was wondering if it would be possible to get user details directly from the Bot?

I looked at the source and I see that there is a private property on the bot. (I now use this property with reflection to get the user's name .. this is obviously just a work around). Is there any better way to get users information when you have either their id or name? Maybe even get their email address?

Thanks

Rolf

[Workshop2]

It looks like there is an api you can call for this:
https://api.slack.com/methods/users.info