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Dump Slack conversations in a txt file

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Ever wanted to dump a Slack thread in a text file?

Install slackdump (macOS: brew install slackdump)
Add this to ~/.zshrc/~/.bashrc:

slack2txt() { URL="$1"; NAME=$(echo "$URL" | awk -F'/' '{print $(NF-1) "_" $NF}'); slackdump archive -o "${NAME}_dump" "$URL" && slackdump format -o "${NAME}_text" text "${NAME}_dump" && rm "${NAME}_text/users.txt" && cat "${NAME}_text"/*.txt > "${NAME}.txt" && rm -rf "${NAME}_dump" "${NAME}_text" && echo "Saved to ${NAME}.txt"; }

Copy a Slack link (right-click -> 🔗 Copy Link)
Have fun:

slack2txt https://your.slack.com/archives/FULL/url/here

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