Fetch a private file from Slack

get_privat_slack_file.py

# fetching a private Slack file with requests

import requests
import os

slack_token = os.environ['SLACK_TOKEN']
url = 'https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T12345678-F12345678/my_file.jpg'

res = requests.get(url, headers={'Authorization': f'Bearer {slack_token}'})
res.raise_for_status()

with open('my_file.jpg', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(res.content)

hello @erik, thanks for the example,
just i can't figure out what is the difffrence between SLACK_TOKEN and MY_TOKEN

@moradamir
Thanks for the feedback. I think that is actually a bug and the script is meant to use slack_token. I will update it.

above code is working fine. But the image that i save is corrupted. after fetching image from slack , if i print "res.content" it is textual information and not byte code. Can you identify what is the problem ?

Hey @kiranmah92! If you try to access a file without the right permissions / token then you get a HTML asking you to login. Sounds like that might be your problem here.

If somebody came here from google, you might also be interested in this script: https://github.com/auino/slack-downloader
I have just created a pull request such that it works with the latest Slack API.

There's a mistake in this code:
You are missing f in L9
{f'Authorization': f'Bearer {slack_token}'})

@reverie-ss thanks for heads up. the f was actually in the wrong place. Corrected.