tjb / thearqivist

Backup Slack and create Confluence pages from your important conversations.

The Arqivist

Hard at work archiving your messages.

⚠️ This repo has unstable code, DO NOT RELY ON IT. The version available at the Atlassian Marketplace uses a private version of the code, and is stable.

Saving Slack messages

The Arqivist is a Slack bot which you can summon to create a Confluence page with the contents of a message thread, or a channel.

Requirements

To run The Arqivist yourself you need

• admin access to a Confluence account
• admin access to a Slack workspace
• a running instance of The Arqivist + a Postgres database (see data model at dbdiagram.io

Installing in Confluence

If you your own running instance of The Arqivist, you can install it manually in Confluence by going to "Apps" > "Manage apps" in Confluence's top navbar, then clicking "Upload app" and pasting the URL to your descriptor.json file.

Installing in Slack

WIP

How to use The Arqivist

After installing The Arqivist in Slack, you can interact with the bot in two ways

• /arqive [keyword] slash command is the main point of entry to The Arqivist. It expects no keyword, or one of these:
  • no keyword — opens setup modal to select how often to save the channel to Confluence and other remote locations (if available)
  • help — show help information with the available keywords, ways of interacting etc.

Use-cases

• Turn ad-hoc questions into citeable and linkeable documentation
• Incident management
• Compliance
• Backup

Hacking locally

• Start a Postgres instance with docker compose up -d postgres
• Start a REPL with make repl
• Start the system with (start) in the Clojure REPL
• make lint to check for format and lint issue, make lint-fix to automatically fix them (stage or commit other changes first) - requires node.js locally

Contributors

Contributing

If you found a bug, or want to propose new features please open an issue. PRs are also welcome!

License

MIT