koryk / slack-archiver

An archiver for Slack channels

slack-archiver

This is an archiver for your Slack account. The idea is to archive the content of all channels in regular intervals for you to keep a local copy.

It's based on the Python code of the SlackClient provided by Slack from

The script will write a logfile per channel and keeps a statefile of when it fetched the last messages from the channels. So it can pickup on subsequent runs where it has left off last time. This reduces the number of API calls.

A separate file is written which contains all URLs from all channel messages as an aggregated link archive.

Dependencies

• websocket-client https://pypi.python.org/pypi/websocket-client/
• python-slackclient https://github.com/slackhq/python-slackclient

Installation

1. Download the slack-archiver code

    git clone [e-mail]:maxheadroom/slack-archiver.git
    cd slack-archiver
   

2. Install dependencies (virtualenv is recommended.)

    pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Configure slack-archiver (https://api.slack.com/bot-users)

    cp slack.conf.example slack.conf
    vi slack.conf
      SLACK_TOKEN: "xoxb-11111111111-222222222222222"
   

4. Run the archiver

    python slack-archiver.py
   

Note: At this point slack-archiver is ready to run.

####Todo: Latest version can writes channel timestamps into a file to pick up where it has left of before.