Browse and search slack export archives in the browser.
This simple app provides a limited API for querying the JSON output of Slack exports, as well as a React.js-based web interface for consuming the API.
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Install the dependencies.
npm i -
Generate a Slack export and unzip the contents to the
slack_exportdirectory. -
Run the app.
npm start -
Open
localhost:3000in your browser.
I created the initial API based on what I thought I needed on the client side, and I added to it as I built the app. As a result, the responses are inconsistent, and where the app gets some data (like message counts) is quite unreliable and messy. It would be best to standardize the API so that it would return the messages in question, metadata like counts and next and previous messages, and so on.
There is no database or indexing; it merely loads and filters the JSON in memory. This could be ameliorated by either:
- Creating a backing store, with appropriate indexes, and loading the data through a separate script.
- Using an in-memory index.
Perhaps in the longer term, a database that supports full-text search could be added.
It would be nice for each event to generate a history stack and appropriate hash change, so that states could be linked via URL, and so the user can go back to previous states/pages.
It would be fun to add a word cloud, globally, per user, and per channel, to see what the most commonly used words are.
It would be cool to have stats on some of the following (on global, per channel, and per user):
- Count of messages by time of day, day of week, and month of year
- Sentiment analysis
- Average message length
- Keyword/topic modeling -- where has a keyword or topic appeared, and with what frequency (e.g., histogram of topic density per channel or user, over time)
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Copyright (c) 2017 Joshua Hutt
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