The property url_private contains the secret URL to the file you need to download. After closing the Slack account, Slack will remove all your files from its servers. Therefore, you need to download and store them in a secure location to retain a full backup.
If you are interested in the downloader script, check out our public repo or just copy the Gist below. It requires a Python 3 environment, and you must pass the path to your Slack export folder. A progress bar displays the status of the download. The execution of the script is idempotent, meaning you can execute it multiple times, and it will download only missing files. This behavior enables you also to backup your files regularly.
How To Backup Slack Messages, Files
Note: All files stored in Slack are available as links and you cannot preview the files in the backup archives. When the file gets restored, the link is automatically converted to the original file.
file provided via argument -i or --configslack-backup.ini in current directory
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/slack-backup.ini, where $XDG_CONFIG_HOME usuallydefaults to $HOME/.config
DetailsDuring first run, database with provided name is generated. For ease of usesqlite database is used, although it is easy to switch the engine, since thereis an ORM (SQLAlchemy) used.
This tutorial explains how to backup Slack and export channels, message history, and files. In this article, I will explain some easy methods to do that. I have added some desktop and online tools in the below post to perform Slack backup. You can use these tools to quickly get all public, private conversions along with the files. But some of them can only get you the conversion history. You can download the conversation history in HTML, CSV, and text format and then do whatever you like. All these tools are completely free to use and you can use them right on your PC to get backup of your Slack data.
SlackBackup is one of the best free tools out there that you can use to backup your Slack workspace. After connecting to your Slack workspace, it can download all the private and public conversations, channels, and all the files that you have sent so far. By running a simple command, you can easily get all the data from your workspace and then do whatever you want. To get the data from your Slack workspace, you just need an access token that you can generate easily. Follow these steps to use this tool to get data from Slack. This tool requires JRE or JDK installed on your PC. And you can download the latest version of the JDK or JRE here.
Step 2: Open command prompt in the current folder where the JAR file of the tool is. Now, run this command to start getting all the data from your Slack workspace. It saves all the data in ZIP file that you can extract and see all the messages, files, and channels easily.
These are the most handy methods you can use to easily backup slack data. You can use them with any Slack account and get the data from your workspace. You can use any tool that suits your need. If you want to backup the whole Slack workspace, then use the SlackBackup tool. And if you want to only export message history from a specific channel then use the Export app which is actually a Slack bot.
Not everyone is worried about messages, there are also files that we share with other users on Slack. If you want to delete files only, Detetron is a cool little web app that is open-sourced and very easy to use. Just open the web app and sign in using your Slack account. You can later revoke all access. Once you do, choose a particular channel or choose all channels and select the file types that you want to find and delete.
Multiple instances of the config_location/slack_posturl.conf file results in multiple instances of the event plugin.The Slack configuration file can have any name provided the file has the .conf file extension, contains the valid event plugin identifier [posturl], and resides in the event-plugins directory location.All configuration files are loaded, so differentiate the file names such as slack_posturl1.conf, slack_posturl2.conf, and so on.Multiple plugin instances facilitate flexibility when setting up alerts to different Slack channels for development and production clusters.All OpsCenter event plugins support multiple configurations files and subsequent plugin instances.
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