https://github.com/quantixed/slack-export-local

Make a fully local slack archive
https://github.com/quantixed/slack-export-local

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Make a fully local slack archive

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/quantixed/slack-export-local
• Owner: quantixed
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2024-07-07T11:04:06.000Z (4 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-07T16:32:27.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T21:36:02.757Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: archive, slack
• Language: Python
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• Size: 19.5 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# slack-export-local

## Background

Slack announced a new policy, effective from August 26th, 2024, that messages and files older than one year in workspaces on the free tier will be **deleted**.

This is in addition to the 90 day limit for viewing content in the workspace.

## Partial solution

There is an excellent tool [`slack-export-viewer`](https://github.com/hfaran/slack-export-viewer) that can generate a viewable archive of your slack workspace.

It is possible to compile a full archive of a workspace using this tool.

To do so, one needs to export the workspace data at 90 day intervals and compile the exports to generate a full archive - details [here](https://quantixed.org/2022/08/11/slacker-archiving-information-from-a-slack-workspace/).

Or perhaps the workspace has had a free trial of the paid offering and a full export has been generated.

By default `slack-export-viewer` serves up a viewable archive as a flask application.

It is also possible to generate a local static html instance of the archive using:

```

slack-export-viewer -z path/to/archive.zip --html-only

```

The archive is viewable in both cases, but **the content is external**.

It is only a partial solution because **all the content will disappear when slack deletes any files older than one year**.

## Full solution

This repo is aimed at modifying the local html instance generated by `slack-export-viewer` so that all files are downloaded, and stored and linked as a local copy.

Once the script has run, you will be able to access a local copy of your files direct from the conversations in your Slack workspace - and your access will contnue long after Slack delete your precious files!

### How to:

- generate the local instance of your slack archive (usually `~/html-output/`)

- download `slack-export-local.py` script

- run using `python slack-export-local.py ~/html-output/`

Requires python3 and BeautifulSoup.

Note that the paths in the html files are relative so that it is possible to move or rename the `html-output` folder and everything should still work.