Slack Archiver

A tool to scan files containing Slack links, then archive the conversations in those links to a GitHub repository and replace the Slack links with links to the archives.

Setup

GitHub Token

• Generate a GitHub token, select "classic token" and tick the "repo" scope, then generate the token.
• Copy the token and paste into a .env file, with the name GITHUB_TOKEN=...

Slack Token

• Create a new Slack app and choose "from an app manifest".
• After choosing the workspace, copy and paste the contents of ./app-manifest.json
• Open your Slack app's basic information page, and press "Install your app", then allow the app to access information.
• Select "OAuth & Permissions" from the app's sidebar and copy the User OAuth token for your workspace, paste it into a .env file with the name SLACK_TOKEN=...

Configuration

Configuration is specified in a config.toml file, the fields are:

• github_username - the owner of the repo being used for archiving
• github_repo_name - the name of the repo being used for archiving
• git_name - the name that will be associated with the git commits
• git_email - the email that will be associated with the git commits
• slack_workspace - the name of your Slack workspace, e.g. julialang
• github_token_environment_variable and slack_token_environment_variable - optional, the names of the environment variables that will be checked for your tokens, default to GITHUB_TOKEN and SLACK_TOKEN respectively

Running

Install the project's dependencies:

julia --project=. -e 'import Pkg; Pkg.instantiate()'

Then run the src/SlackArchiver.jl file, passing the paths to files containing Slack links that you want archived. The files will automatically be overwritten with ones containing the new archived links.

julia --project=. src/SlackArchiver.jl ./path-to/my-file.md ./path-to/another-file.md