No channel history

[orhun]

I just started using irslackd and all of my buffers are empty. Is there a way to fetch the chat history after connecting?

[adsr]

No one's written that feature yet but it's possible. The closest thing that exists presently is @slack history -l <num_events> which should return chat history for a given conversation, albeit in raw format.

[orhun]

@slack history -l <num_events>

How exactly do we do that? Is it a plugin command?

[adsr]

You can type that in any channel. It won't get sent as a chat line.

[orhun]

Ah thanks, it's working fine. Is it limited to 1000 events?

[adsr]

As implemented, it is indeed limited to one conversations.history call which is 1000 according to docs.