A little project written in Python to make your Slack archive painlessly.

One of challenges on Slack is that the number of searchable messages is only 10,000 for teams on free plans. Beyond this number, messages are unreachable even from APIs. As we wanted to keep a full history of our team for easy access, we started this project as more and more messages sending into Slack by people.

Current v1.0.0 RC2.

The table schema can be considered stable, but the mechanism is not production-ready. And please be aware that there is currently no test suite. You can try making archives, but the correctness and integrity is not guaranteed.

# installing dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# copying default settings, and editing it...
cp settings.py.example settings.py
# kick the things off
python archv.py

1. Written in pure Python!
2. All history organized in a single SQLite database per team, including all the messages, files and attachments. (not including multiparty chats, user groups, and custom fields; some of which are only on paid plans so we cannot even try them out.)
3. A snapshot of channels, users and emojis is kept for easily access by joining tables.
4. Data is saved fetched with only a Slack API token. No integration is required.
5. Only public history is stored, and we are going to develop options to filter out only messages from private channels or direct messages as well.
6. Messages get updated if they were edited after the last query.
7. Reactions and star list of all team members are also included!

The project is licensed under MIT.

We are open to any ideas on the project. Issues and PRs are always welcome.