slack-history-export v1.1.1

slack-history-export

Command line module to allow you download your slack history. Supports IM/DM, channels and private groups now, support for multiparty direct message coming soon.

Installation

npm install slack-history-export -g

Options

Usage: slack-history-export [options]
Options:

  --help, -h      Show help text.                                      [boolean]
  --version, -v   Show version number                                  [boolean]
  --token, -t     Slack Token. You can generate it
                  from here https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens
  --type, -T      Type of export you want to do         [choices: "dm", "group"]
  --username, -u  Username of the person who chat
                  history with you you want to download
  --group, -g     Name of the group to download history
  --logLevel, -l  Enable and set log level
        [choices: "info", "silly", "verbose", "warn", "error"] [default: "info"]
  --channel, -c   Name of the channel to download history
  --filepath, -f  Path to the json file to save the history  [default: "stdout"]

You can provide token to the module in several ways

• CLI flag
• Environment variable SLACK_HISTORY_EXPORT_TOKEN

• File. File location is ~/.config/slack-history-export/config.json with key of SLACK_HISTORY_EXPORT_TOKEN

  {
    "SLACK_HISTORY_EXPORT_TOKEN": "testingtoken"
  }

Usage

slack-history-export -t "slack-token-123456abcde" -u abimbola -f 'amimbola.json'

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for info on contributing to slack-history-export