slackhist

slackhist

A command-line utility for exporting Slack history to Excel (.xlsx)

Installation

Have Go installed on your system?

go get github.com/dsifford/slackhist
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/dsifford
go install

Don't have Go installed?

• OSX/Linux: Download a pre-built binary from releases and save the file to your usr/local/bin directory.
• Windows: Download a pre-built executable file from releases, save it wherever you'd like, and include that directory in your PATH.

Usage

Basic Usage

1. Save the exported .zip archive from Slack to a memorable location (eg, ~/Downloads/export.zip).
2. Open a terminal and navigate to the .zip file location (eg, cd ~/Downloads).
3. Enter slackhist <YOUR-ZIP-FILE-NAME> (eg, slackhist export.zip).
4. The new .xlsx file will now be in your current directory.

CLI Global Options

• -n, --name: Renames the output file (Default YYYY-MMM-DD_SlackExport.xlsx)
• -d, --destination: Changes the output directory (Default: the current working directory)
• -t, --timezone: Changes the time-zone parsing of each message timestamp (Default: your local timezone)

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Version 0.0.0

Todo...

• Refactor
• Improve concurrency
• Add tests
• Compile for Windows (64 and 32 bit)