whemonkey.blogg.se - Slack download channel history

If it exists there is a thread attached to it. Threads can be identified in the messages for each channel by checking for the threads_ts property in the message. Those have to be retrieved additionaly with one call to conversations.replies for every thread you want to retrieve messages for. Note that the conversations.history endpoint will not return thread messages.

You can specify channel and max message to be retrieved.

The result will be written to a file as JSON array.

It will therefore work withĪny type of channel and can fetch large amounts of messages if

It uses the official Python Slack library and callsĬonversations_history with paging.

See below for is an example code on how to pull messages from a channel in Python.