vavi-apps-slack

vavi-apps-slack is a Java application that can export Slack messages incrementally.

we can find some Slack exporters, but those exports whole messages and channels everytime. this application is useful for daily backup.

Depends

• Simple Slack API (Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal)
• Gson (Apache 2.0)

How To

• get a token from https://api.slack.com/web (push Generate test tokens button)
• prepare a setting file

$ vi ~/.vavi_apps_slack.properties
# your group name + keyword
YOUR_GROUP.user=your_user_name
YOUR_GROUP.token=xoxp-289999999915-12UUYYYYYY9-6XXXXXXXX-999999999999

• download vavi-apps-slack

$ git clone https://github.com/umjammer/vavi-apps-slack.git

• run vavi-apps-slack

$ cd vavi-apps-slack
$ ./gradlew run -Pargs="YOUR_GROUP"

• get messages

$ tree tmp
tmp
└── YOUR_GROUP
    ├── channel
    │   ├── channel 1.json
    │   └── channel 2.json
    ├── direct
    │   ├── your friend a.json
    │   ├── your friend b.json
    │   ├── slackbot.json
    │   └── your friend c.json
    └── private
        ├── mpdm-friend1--friend2--you-1.json
        └── mpdm-friend3--friend4--you--friend5-1.json

• view messages

$ pwd
vavi-apps-slack
$ ./gradlew execute
:compileJava UP-TO-DATE
:processResources UP-TO-DATE
:classes UP-TO-DATE
:execute
welcome to slack viewer: 4567
> Building 75% > :execute

access http://localhost:4567/

License

vavi-apps-slack is released under the Apache 2.0 license.