Slack ArchiveBot

A bot that can search your slack message history. Makes it possible to search further back than 10,000 messages.

Installation

1. Clone this repo.

2. Install the requirements:

    pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Export your team's slack history. Download the archive and export it to a directory. Then run import_archive.py on the directory. For example:

    python import.py export
   

   This will create a file slack.sqlite.

4. Create a new bot user on your slack channel and get the API key. Start the bot with:

    export SLACK_API_TOKEN=<API_TOKEN> && python archivebot.py
   

   Where API_TOKEN is the token you got when creating the bot user.

Archiving New Messages

When running, ArchiveBot will continue to archive new messages for any channel it is invited to. To add the bot to your channels:

    /invite @ArchiveBot

If @ArchiveBot is the name you gave your bot user.

Searching

To search the archive, direct message (DM) @ArchiveBot with the search query. For example, sending the word "pizza" will return the first 10 messages that contain the word "pizza". There are a number of parameters that can be provided to the query. The full usage is:

    <query> from:<user> in:<channel> sort:asc|desc limit:<number>

    query: The text to search for.
    user: If you want to limit the search to one user, the username.
    channel: If you want to limit the search to one channel, the channel name.
    sort: Either asc if you want to search starting with the oldest messages,
        or desc if you want to start from the newest. Default asc.
    limit: The number of responses to return. Default 10.

Contributing

Contributions are more than welcome. From bugs to new features. I threw this together to meet my team's needs, but there's plenty I've overlooked.

License

Code released under the MIT license.