Slack Export Archive Viewer
Project description
A Slack Export archive viewer that allows you to easily view and share your Slack team’s export (instead of having to dive into hundreds of JSON files).
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Overview
slack-export-viewer is useful for small teams on a free Slack plan (limited to 10,000 messages) who overrun their budget and ocassionally need a nice interface to refer back to previous messages. You get a web interface to easily scroll through all channels in the export without having to look at individual JSON files per channel per day.
slack-export-viewer can be used locally on one machine for yourself to explore an export or it can be run on a headless server (as it is a Flask web app) if you also want to serve the content to the rest of your team.
Installation
I recommend `pipsi <https://github.com/mitsuhiko/pipsi>`__ for a nice isolated install.
pipsi install slack-export-viewer
Or just feel free to use pip as you like.
pip install slack-export-viewer
slack-export-viewer will be installed as an entry-point; run from anywhere.
$ slack-export-viewer --help
Usage: slack-export-viewer [OPTIONS]
Options:
-p, --port INTEGER Host port to serve your content on
-z, --archive PATH Path to your Slack export archive (.zip file or directory)
[required]
-I, --ip TEXT Host IP to serve your content on
--no-browser If you do not want a browser to open automatically, set
this.
--debug
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage
1) Grab your Slack team’s export
Create an export
Wait for it to complete
Refresh the page and download the export (.zip file) into whatever directory
2) Point slack-export-viewer to it
Point slack-export-viewer to the .zip file and let it do its magic
slack-export-viewer -z /path/to/export/zip
If everything went well, your archive will have been extracted, processed, and browser window will have opened showing your #general channel from the export.
CLI
There is now a CLI included as well. Currently the one command you can use is clearing the cache from slack-export-viewer from your %TEMP% directory; see usage:
└———→ slack-export-viewer-cli --help Usage: slack-export-viewer-cli [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]... Options: --help Show this message and exit. Commands: clean Cleans up any temporary files (including...
Examples
┌— hamza@AURORAONE C:\Users\hamza └———→ slack-export-viewer-cli clean Run with -w to remove C:\Users\hamza\AppData\Local\Temp\_slackviewer ┌— hamza@AURORAONE C:\Users\hamza └———→ slack-export-viewer-cli clean -w Removing C:\Users\hamza\AppData\Local\Temp\_slackviewer...
Acknowledgements
Credit to Pieter Levels whose blog post and PHP script I used as a jumping off point for this.
Improvements over Pieter’s script
slack-export-viewer is similar in core functionality but adds several things on top to make it nicer to use:
An installable application
Automated archive extraction and retention
A Slack-like sidebar that lets you switch channels easily
Much more “sophisticated” rendering of messages
A Flask server which lets you serve the archive contents as opposed to a PHP script which does static file generation
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