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> Slack's data access policy is basically "No." For being a blog post about problems with Slack's policies, it's odd that it has no details whatsoever on what

> Slack's data access policy is basically "No." For being a blog post about problems with Slack's policies, it's odd that it has no details whatsoever on what the issues actually are.

willbur1230 7mo ago
they dont let you extract messages via the API. Keeping Slack message data in their walled garden
- sadeshmukh 7mo ago
  You can do workspace wide data export
- ahussain 7mo ago
  Doesn't the conversation.history permission let a Slack bot extract all messages? https://docs.slack.dev/reference/methods/conversations.history/ https://docs.slack.dev/reference/methods/conversations.histo...
  - sometdog 7mo ago
    Last May they introduced a new rate limit for that endpoint of 1 request per minute.
    - swyx 7mo ago
      you can work around it but i wont say how here because slack is definitely readin gthis
Esophagus4 7mo ago
Yes - and I have never actually needed data access anyway. I treat Slack as mostly ephemeral, and any real knowledge should be put into source control.