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I find slack's search to be absolutely abysmal. If it at least logged to disk, I could grep/awk/sed it.
by RHSeeger 8y ago
I find slack's search to be absolutely abysmal. If it at least logged to disk, I could grep/awk/sed it.
- derefr 8y agoIf you're a Slack admin, you can export a dump of the chat history. Such dumps are nominally for import into another group-chat system, but—given that the dump is just a tarball of newline-delimited JSON events, one file per channel—it's very easy to parse through in pretty much any language. And, of course, if you have a public Slack community, there's nothing stopping you from taking regular dumps and baking them into one-per-day HTML pages, and then putting the HTML files up somewhere where Google can find and index them...
- u801e 8y ago> there's nothing stopping you from taking regular dumps and baking them into one-per-day HTML pages, and then putting the HTML files up somewhere where Google can find and index them... Is there a reason why Slack doesn't just have a setting that enables logging to a local file on disk?