Seems private channel export is not working though
univert opened this issue · comments
Hi @univert, Thanks for your raising your concern with the tool.
Can you provide the error if any? or a better context. I tried it and it worked here.
Sorry my bad. I did not realize that -T group must be used with -g and -T channel must be used with -c
works like a charm eventually
Seems this is a useability issue.
Yeah, thanks for your feedback @univert I felt so too. I look forward to improving the options feature. Your input on how I can make this better is welcome.
I guess the -T is redundant in some cases. So it should not be a required option.
I mean -c obviously implies -T channel
-g obviously implies -T group
-u implies -T user
...
i have the same problem here. i cannot export private channels.
slack-history-export --token "mytoken" --type channel --channel temp
slack-history-export -t "mytoken" -T "channel" -c "temp"
both commands lead to a
[Error: Channel does not exist. Check channel name and try again.]
Error: Channel does not exist. Check channel name and try again.
should this tool work on free slack accounts?
Hello @c33s A private channel is a group. Try changing -c to -g and let me know if it works. Also, the -T option is not required again. I will update the readme shortly.
awesome. it works when i am using -g . thanks for your cool app.
in general the flags are quite confusing. they should speak for themself (why is a channel a group?)
I totally agree to that @c33s, hence, the decision to remove the T flag. However, a channel is different from a group on slack. Channels are public while groups are private. This is standard slack terminologies.
Any suggestions that will help make the tool more usable are welcome
maybe just add some examples to the readme
- export all public messages
- export a specific channel
- export a private channel
- ...
just add some variations which make sense, then users which come here just have to copy and paste the code, add their token and are done.
Okay thanks @c33s, will update.