rich1.0phorkiehttps://p.cweiske.de/slack transparent profile imageChristian Weiske86400900900<!-- embedding all files of https://p.cweiske.de/822 -->
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<p>You can't have a transparent profile avatar image in Slack in 2022-11-29 :(</p>
<p>This was requested in 2014, but did not change in 2017 and 2022: <a class="reference external" href="https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/533006882588622848">https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/533006882588622848</a></p>
<p>Manually set an image via <tt class="docutils literal">curl</tt> (if you have a token with scope <cite>users.profile:write</cite>):</p>
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curl -s -XPOST https://slack.com/api/users.setPhoto --form token=xoxp-secret --form image=@myimage.png
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<h1>Profile image with the current time</h1>
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while true; do echo -n .; convert cweiske-orange.png -fill blue -gravity Center -pointsize 130 -annotate +0+0 $(date +%H:%M:%S) -resize 128x128 temp1.png; curl -s -XPOST https://slack.com/api/users.setPhoto --form token=xoxp-secret --form image=@temp1.png > /dev/null; sleep 3; done
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