Ruby script that utilizes the Slack API to bulk-delete files on Slack. Useful for people who use the free version of Slack and have a storage size limit, which requires you to bulk-delete files (which they conveniently don't have an easy way to do...)
By default, the program will delete files older than 30 days, or the oldest 1,000 files, whichever limit is hit first. These are configurable through options.
- Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/evanthegrayt/bulk-delete-slack-files.git
- If using Rake (
gem install rake
) runrake
from the base directory; otherwise, runln -s $PWD/bin/delete_slack_files /usr/local/bin/delete_slack_files
- Install the
slack-api
gem, version1.6.0
- If you have bundler installed, run
bundle install
from the root directory of the repo. - If you don't have
bundler
installed, rungem install slack-api -v 1.6.0
- If you have bundler installed, run
- Get your Legacy Token from Slack
- If you don't want to manually pass your name and token every time, you can
export
SLACK_NAME
andSLACK_TOKEN
as environmental variables. You can type them in from the command line, or add them to something like your~/.bashrc
or~/.zshrc
file andsource
-ing the file.
export SLACK_NAME="REAL NAME" # Make sure to use "Real Name" from Slack
export SLACK_TOKEN="SLACK TOKEN"
- If you installed via
rake
, or manually linked to a directory in your$PATH
, you should be able to call the executable.
delete_slack_files -t
- Run with
-t
to test, or no arguments to actually delete files. - If you don't want to export your name and token as environmental variables,
pass
-T [TOKEN] -N [NAME]
at runtime. - Run with
-h
to see all available options
If you find any bugs, or anything that could be improved, please submit an issue. My company no longer uses Slack, so this script probably won't be updated much or given new features unless issues are submitted. If people make issues, I will update the code.
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