README

This is a basic Slack scraper, built as a so-called "integrated API". This essentially means that the client is using a token-based instead of OAuth implementation for authentication.

Functionality

• Retrieve all channels from a Slack space
• Retrieve full message history from each channel
• History retrieval is parallellized per channel
• History retrieval is implemented as a sequence of calls over a cursor
• Aggregate interesting elements per channel and participant
• Queries are rate limited

TODO

• Obtain user info for channel creators and for all users posting messages

Configuration

Create a go file for configuration, say 'config.go' and set the following two constants

const (
    // Obtain a token from https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens
    token = "xoxp-some-user-token-here"
    SlackApi = "https://yourspace.slack.com/api/"
)

Running

go run *.go