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Well. I can’t use this at work. But what I really need is not even to export the messages themselves. I just want to save a list of all my channels, and the ca
by codetrotter 2y ago
Well. I can’t use this at work. But what I really need is not even to export the messages themselves.
I just want to save a list of all my channels, and the categories I’ve put them in.
Anyone know a way to do that, using either just Slack itself, or some specific tool that is only about managing followed channels and the categories you’ve grouped them into?
- paxys 2y agoShould be simple enough to find the data by opening the browser debugger and reloading Slack.
- codetrotter 2y agoHm yeah true. I use the desktop app and sometimes I forget that it’s all Electron and that they also have a web version you can use in the browser as well. Thanks, that should be doable :)
- noman-land 2y agoThe web version is amazing for scripting stuff. I used it to download all the emojis one time, just from the console. So easy to automate just from in there.
- xnx 2y agoSlackdump also has a mode that exports a list of channels. Not sure about category groupings. You could also screenshot/OCR or copy and paste from the browser?
- ndr_ 2y agoSome paid Slack plans allow exports from their platform. Inside the ZIP, there will be an XML file that lists the channels - channels.xml, if I am not mistaken. However, I don‘t know about „categories“ - this could be some client configuration that actually is not part of the export. If it‘s not, I would perhaps take screenshots (overlapping is OK), and feed it to some LLM/VLM for extraction. I am confident that GPT-4o or Claude 3.5 Sonnet will work, but Gemini 1.5 Pro should also work.