Export your saved messages in Slack to a neat HTML file - for your own reference or as a simple archive. Don't lose your Slack bookmarks anymore.
For running you just need to have Erlang/OTP installed. It does not require Elixir to be installed unless you wanna build it on your own.
Download the slack-saved-items-export binary.
Alternatively build it with
$ mix escript.build
Create a "Slack App" in your Slack workspace (means basically getting an API token) with the following permissions:
- channels:history
- channels:read
- groups:history
- groups:read
- im:history
- im:read
- mpim:history
- mpim:read
- stars:read
- users:read
After installation you get a user token which starts usually with xoxp-. Set this token as environment variable and run the program:
export SLACK_SAVED_ITEMS_EXPORT_OAUTH_TOKEN=xoxp-YOUR-TOKEN
./slack-saved-items-export --help
./slack-saved-items-export --output export.html --show-profile-image
Currently this program fulfills my personal purpose. Depending on future necessities the following issues might be good to know:
- API pagination is not taken into consideration
- no retry in case of ratelimiting
- unnamed private conversations between multiple users (mpim) are not implemented
- not all text formatting options are implemented; implementation should be revised
Available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE