chaddad / SlackDeleter

Windows console app for deleting old files from your Slack instance when you are getting close to your storage limit.

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SlackDeleter

Don't you hate when you upload a new file to your favorite Slack, and get a message that your team is almost out of storage space?

Me too.

SlackDeleter uses the legacy Web APIs for Slack to retrieve a list of files that are older than a few days, and then issues a delete request for each file. Chances are, you can't even see these in chats anymore because you've had too many messages.

How To Use

1. Download or clone this repo
2. Open the app.Sample.config file, generate a legacy token for your Slack user and instance, and update the authToken value in the config
3. Save the config as app.config
4. As a .Net Core app, you can compile and run by using dotnet run from a command line prompt in the project directory, or open the solution file with Visual Studio

Default values

• SlackDeleter will default to only request files that are over 5 days old, but this can be modified in the GetFiles() function in Program.cs.
• SlackDeleter will default to sleep for 2 seconds between delete requests. Slack rate-limits the calls to this request, and by delaying 2 seconds between requests you should be able to stay within the rate-limits set by Slack

TODOs

• move "days old" to config file
• update to use newer Slack APIs and authentication