delete old slack files

clear-old-slack.py

import requests
import json
import calendar
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

#token from https://api.slack.com/web
_token = "YOUR TOKEN HERE" 
_domain = "YOUR SUB DOMAIN HERE"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    while 1:
        files_list_url = 'https://slack.com/api/files.list'
        date = str(calendar.timegm((datetime.now() + timedelta(-30))
            .utctimetuple()))
        data = {"token": _token, "ts_to": date}
        response = requests.post(files_list_url, data = data)
        if len(response.json()["files"]) == 0:
            break
        for f in response.json()["files"]:
            print "Deleting file " + f["name"] + "..."
            timestamp = str(calendar.timegm(datetime.now().utctimetuple()))
            delete_url = "https://" + _domain + ".slack.com/api/files.delete?t=" + timestamp
            requests.post(delete_url, data = {
                "token": _token, 
                "file": f["id"], 
                "set_active": "true", 
                "_attempts": "1"})
    print "DONE!"

I'd seen this code posted elsewhere, not in the gist, so I started reworking it without realizing I could do a pull request ... then searched for a line in the code again and found this gist.

Anyway, a partial reworking with utf-8 handling, improved messaging and multiple accounts is posted here:
https://github.com/PalmBeachPost/SlackPruner

Thanks! I hope this is OK. If you'd rather fold some of this back into the gist or something, please let me know.

Im getting an error running this

File "slack2.py", line 20
print "Deleting file " + f["name"] + "..."
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

@theapplepastor it looks like you're using python 3, so print is a function. As such, you'll need to use print(stuff) rather than print stuff.

Thanks for this! I just created a similar script using argparse rather than hard coding _token hope this is helpful to people https://gitlab.com/tomleo/SlackFileCleanup/

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