Slack Archive Parser

Tool that takes Slack JSON archives and converts them into a web site with channels. Slack message supported features:

• Single channel
• Multiple channels
• Threads (non-collapsible)
• Emojis
• Links
• User references (partial support)
• Files: Images (jpg, jpeg, png, gif, webp) & videos (mp4, mov, mkv, webm, avi)
• Files: js, json, diff, csv, txt, pdf, xlsx, pptx, sd
• Rich text formatting
• Reactions
• permalink to messages

Instructions

To run this tool, first clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/gutierrezj/slack-archive-parser.git

Then run

cd slack-archive-parser
npm install

For a single channel conversion run:

node parseSlackArchive.js input_data/<channel-directory-name>

For an archive with multiple channel directories

node parseSlackArchive.js input_data/ -a 

The output is always written to output_html.