This code has only been tested on Linux and Mac OS, although it should be straight forward to run on Windows as well.
Your computer should have a version of Python installed - Mac OS comes with Python 2.7 installed by default.
You will need pip, the python package manager. Details for installing that can be found here.
If everything is working properly, you should be able to skip the next few steps by running ./install.sh.
After cloning the repository, install the necessary python packages using:
pip install --user -r requirements.txt
NOTE: If you've used python before you're probably already using virtualenvs so you'd probably be better off using on here.
Before running the script, you must create a yaml config file in the repo named config.yaml, in which we place the slack auth token, the channel name and the time period to examine.
Example:
token: "your_really_long_slack_token"
channel_name: "channel-name"
weeks: 4
weeks is an optional setting, and will default to 12 if left out.
Run the script with:
python scrape.py
The results will be saved in the slack_results.csv file in the same directory. You should be able to open this file in any Excel-like application.