Slack Message Tracker is a simple Java application that will run indefnitly and track all your messages in every channel it is in. After that you can use /search to search for previous messages.
You will need Java installed and create an API key for a bot.
Installation is extremely simple. If you want to get up and running quickly just follow these few steps
- Download
java-slack-message-tracker.jar
from the root of this repository - Put it somewhere and executed it using Java. E.g. on OSX or Linux:
java -jar java-slack-message-tracker.jar
- It will start and throw an Slack error message. Just ignore it.
- It created a
config.properties
file. Fill in the details.database_type
should be set topmysql
orsqlite
. Ifmysql
is set don't forget to set the othermysql_*
values. - Create a API key for a Slack bot
- Enter your api key in the
config.properties
file. - Run the jar again. (
java -jar java-slack-message-tracker.jar
) It will now start and create the tables if needed.
If you want to build it from source, clone this repo, build it, generate a jar file and follow the steps above. :)
Ofcourse! Its just a simple project bit hopefully it is helpfull to some people. If you want something added just create an issue. :)