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Delete largest old Slack files
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/** | |
* Deletes the largest `numToDelete` files older than `minAgeDays` on your slack. | |
* Can only do 1000 at a time because I didn't want to deal with pagination. | |
* YOU NEED TO BE AN ADMIN FOR THIS TO DELETE THINGS THAT YOU DIDN'T UPLOAD! | |
* @param {string} token A legacy slack token. Get yours at https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens | |
* @param {number} minAgeDays The number of days old a file can be to be deleted. | |
* @param {number} numToDelete The number of files to delete total. | |
*/ | |
async function deleteOldLargeFiles(token, minAgeDays, numToDelete) { | |
// Slack does everything in seconds, apparently. | |
const earliestDate = Date.now() / 1000 - 60 * 60 * 24 * minAgeDays; | |
const listResponse = await fetch(`https://slack.com/api/files.list?token=${token}&count=1000&ts_to=${earliestDate}`); | |
const listData = await listResponse.json(); | |
const files = listData.files.slice().sort((a, b) => b.size - a.size); | |
for (let index = 0; index < Math.min(numToDelete, files.length); index++) { | |
const response = await fetch(`https://slack.com/api/files.delete?token=${token}&file=${files[index].id}`); | |
const data = await response.json(); | |
if (data.ok) { | |
console.log(`Deleted ${files[index].title}`); | |
} else { | |
console.error(`Deleting ${files[index].title} failed.\n${data.error}`); | |
} | |
} | |
} |
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