BCurbs/slackbot-messages-download

This bot is designed to be able to download all the messages in slack workspace. Useful before September 1st when they cap history to 15 days for free workspaces

Slack Archive Bot

Setup

Installing PostgreSQL

You can install PostgreSQL for your platform here

Requirements

This bot requires python 3. It was developed in python 3.10, and should work in anything greater than 3.7.

For linux, python in commands should be replaced with python3

1. Open your command line/terminal interface and go to the directory where the bot's code is located.

   1. If you're not familiar with how to do that:
      1. On Windows, open CMD or Powershell. On Mac and Linux, open the Terminal. and type cd "path/to/directory". Alternatively, on Windows, go to the directory in the File Explorer app. Click the bar that is circled in the image below and type cmd. Press enter and the command line should open up within that directory. Also, you can use an integrated terminal with an IDE of your choice.

2. Install dependencies with python -m pip install -Ur requirements.txt in your command line interface.

3. Run the bot once with python bot.py. This will exit, but generate a default config file in config.json.

   1. The bot uses json for its config file

4. Add the bots tokens to the config.json file.

5. Add your database connection info to db_url in config.json using the following format:

   postgres://user:password@host:port

   Replace host with your database IP, or localhost if it's on the same PC. port is by default 5432. If the user has no password, you can remove the colon and password. The default user for the above installation is postgres, however we strongly suggest making a different user for security reasons using this guide.

6. Once this setup is complete, you can rerun the bot with python bot.py.