slack-dm-export

Usage

1. Insert your API key in im.py and change dates you want to get message history within.
2. You can get API key from Slack website.
3. Install Python3 Slacker module.

Syntax

Usage: python3 im.py [-h] [-g] [-s START_DATE] [-e END_DATE]

Slack direct messages, private groups and general channel export

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -g, --groups          Export private groups (by default only #general and 
                                                direct messages exported)
  -s START_DATE, --start START_DATE
                        Start date
  -e END_DATE, --end END_DATE
                        End date

Date format

Date format is YYYY.MM.DD

Example

python3 im.py -g --start 2015.04.26 --end 2015.05.13