Bulk delete messages and files on Slack.
this is a fork of https://github.com/kfei/slack-cleaner
Install from Pip:
pip install -e git+https://github.com/dandes3/slack-cleaner.git#egg=slack-cleanerusage: slack-cleaner [-h] --token TOKEN [--log] [--quiet] [--rate RATE]
[--as_user] [--message | --file | --info] [--regex]
[--channel CHANNEL] [--direct DIRECT] [--group GROUP]
[--mpdirect MPDIRECT] [--user USER] [--botname BOTNAME]
[--bot] [--keeppinned] [--after AFTER] [--before BEFORE]
[--types TYPES] [--pattern PATTERN] [--perform]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--token TOKEN Slack API token (https://api.slack.com/web)
--log Create a log file in the current directory
--quiet Run quietly, does not log messages deleted
--rate RATE Delay between API calls (in seconds)
--as_user Pass true to delete the message as the authed user. Bot
users in this context are considered authed users.
--message Delete messages
--file Delete files
--info Show information
--regex Interpret channel, direct, group, and mpdirect as regex
--channel CHANNEL Channel name's, e.g., general
--direct DIRECT Direct message's name, e.g., sherry
--group GROUP Private group's name
--mpdirect MPDIRECT Multiparty direct message's name, e.g.,
sherry,james,johndoe
--user USER Delete messages/files from certain user
--botname BOTNAME Delete messages/files from certain bots
--bot Delete messages from bots
--keeppinned exclude pinned messages from deletion
--after AFTER Delete messages/files newer than this time (YYYYMMDD)
--before BEFORE Delete messages/files older than this time (YYYYMMDD)
--types TYPES Delete files of a certain type, e.g., posts,pdfs
--pattern PATTERN Delete messages with specified pattern (regex)
--perform Perform the task
channels:historychannels:readchat:write:botusers:read
# Delete all messages from a channel
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --message --channel general --user "*"
# Delete all messages from a private group aka private channel
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --message --group hr --user "*"
# Delete all messages from a direct message channel
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --message --direct sherry --user johndoe
# Delete all messages from a multiparty direct message channel. Note that the
# list of usernames must contains yourself
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --message --mpdirect sherry,james,johndoe --user "*"
# Delete all messages from certain user
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --message --channel gossip --user johndoe
# Delete all messages from bots (especially flooding CI updates)
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --message --channel auto-build --bot
# Delete all messages older than 2015/09/19
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --message --channel general --user "*" --before 20150919
# Delete all files
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --file --user "*"
# Delete all files from certain user
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --file --user johndoe
# Delete all snippets and images
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --file --types snippets,images
# Show information about users, channels:
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --info
# TODO add pattern example, add keep_pinned example, add quiet
# Always have a look at help message
slack-cleaner --help
You will need to generate a Slack legacy token to use slack-cleaner. You can generate a token here:
https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens
After the task, a backup file slack-cleaner.<timestamp>.log will be created in current directory if --log is supplied.
If any API problem occurred, try --rate=<delay-in-seconds> to reduce the API call rate (which by default is unlimited).
If you see the following warning from urllib3, consider to install missing
packages: pip install --upgrade requests[security] or just upgrade your Python to 2.7.9.
InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available.
This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail.
For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
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