slack-exporter

slack-exporter

The tool for exporting Slack conversation histories (with replies) and files written in Go.

Requirement

• Go 1.19+ (for development)
• Slack App User / Bot Token with the required scope listed below (refer to Creating an app, Requesting scopes and Installing the app to a workspace sections in this tutorial)
  • users:read
  • channels:history, channels:read
  • groups:history, groups:read
  • im:history, im:read
  • mpim:history, mpim:read
  • files:read

Configuration

Add your config.yaml file:

---
SlackToken:
RequestDelay: 1200
ChannelTypes:
  # - "public_channel"
  # - "private_channel"
  # - "mpim"
  # - "im"
ExportBasePath: "./export"
SplitMessages: false
ArchiveData: true
DownloadFiles: true
IncludeChannel:
  # - "general"
  # - "random"
  # - "@someone"
  # - "mpdm-user1--user2--user3-1"

List of configuration values

Usage

To run exporter:

slack-exporter

Windows user can use run.bat to run exporter.

If you want to switch to other configuration file, you can add -c or --config option:

slack-exporter -c ~/another_config.yaml

slack-exporter --config /home/someone/yet_another_config.yaml

To change log verbosity, you can add -v or --verbosity option:

slack-exporter -v debug

slack-exporter --verbosity warn

For more usage, use help or --help