The Wayslack Machine: incrementally archive Slack messages and files using Slack's team export format
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The Wayslack Machine
The Wayslack Machine: incrementally archive Slack messages and files using Slack’s team export format.
IMMATURITY WARNING
WARNING: wayslack is still somewhat immature and not completely tested. Right now it will archive:
Public messages
Private groups
Private messages
All uploaded files
All link previews
List of channels
List of users
But it will likely be very slow for larger (100+ user or channel) teams, doesn’t have any configuration options, and likely has bugs which will only be found with time.
Getting Started
Install wayslack:
$ pip install wayslack
Export your team history and unzip it: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-your-team-s-Slack-history
Get a token from the bottom of: https://api.slack.com/web
Run wayslack path/to/export/directory to download all messages and files:
$ wayslack my-export/ API token for my-export/ (see https://api.slack.com/web): xoxp-1234-abcd Processing: my-export/ Downloading https://.../image.jpg #general: 10 new messages in #general (saving to my-export/_channel-C049V24HY/2016-12-19.json) $ ls my-export/_files/ ... https%3A%2F%2F...%2Fimage.jpg
Optionally, create a configuration file so multiple teams can be archived easily:
$ cat ~/.wayslack/config.yaml - dir: first-team/ # relative to the config file token: xoxp-1234-abcd # from the bottom of https://api.slack.com/web - dir: second-team/ token: xoxp-9876-wxyz $ wayslack Processing: first-team ... Processing: second-team ...
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