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Delete all Slack files. Usage: python slack_delete.py --token <your token>
import argparse
import requests
import time
import json
def main():
"""
Entry point of the application
:return: void
"""
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-t", "--token", required=True, help="Specifies the OAuth token used for authentication, created at (https://api.slack.com/docs/oauth-test-tokens)")
parser.add_argument("-d", "--days", type=int, default=None, help="Delete files older than x days (optional)")
parser.add_argument("-c", "--count", type=int, default=1000, help="Max amount of files to delete at once (optional)")
options = parser.parse_args()
try:
print "[*] Fetching file list.."
file_ids = list_file_ids(token=options.token, count=options.count, days=options.days)
print "[*] Deleting files.."
delete_files(token=options.token, file_ids=file_ids)
print "[*] Done"
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print "\b\b[-] Aborted"
exit(1)
def calculate_days(days):
"""
Calculate days to unix time
:param days: int
:return: int
"""
return int(time.time()) - days * 24 * 60 * 60
def list_file_ids(token, count, days=None):
"""
Get a list of all file id's
:param token: string
:param count: int
:param days: int
:return: list
"""
if days:
params = {'token': token, 'count': count, 'ts_to': calculate_days(days)}
else:
params = {'token': token, 'count': count}
uri = 'https://slack.com/api/files.list'
response = requests.get(uri, params=params)
files = json.loads(response.text)['files']
return [f['id'] for f in files]
def delete_files(token, file_ids):
"""
Delete a list of files by id
:param token: string
:param file_ids: list
:return: void
"""
count = 0
num_files = len(file_ids)
for file_id in file_ids:
count += 1
params = {'token': token, 'file': file_id}
uri = 'https://slack.com/api/files.delete'
response = json.loads(requests.get(uri, params=params).text)
if response["ok"]:
print "[+] Deleted", count, "of", num_files, "-", file_id, json.loads(response.text)['ok']
else:
print "[!] Unable to delete", count, "of", num_files, "-", file_id + ", reason:", response["error"]
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
@bradchoate
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I think the issue above is that json.loads() has already been run on the result of the request, so line 75 should be using response["ok"] since it isn't a requests response object.

Also, it'd be nice if the script could exclude pinned files. Is there a way to determine if a given file is pinnned? The pinned_to property, maybe?

@technmsg
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technmsg commented Jun 15, 2017

Forked to preserve pinned and starred files. Thanks to @Paradoxis @jackcarter @jamescmartinez for sharing!

@rodrigolopezguerra
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follow @notz advice. Worked ok.

@Tibingeo
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Tibingeo commented Aug 3, 2018

How to we delete bot users files, a files uploaded using bot users api Token, currently this says

u'{"ok":false,"error":"not_allowed_token_type"}'

@ayhamg
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ayhamg commented Oct 1, 2018

For the guys who do not want to code, the easier way to delete and back-up slack files in bulk is using
https://delete-slack-files.com/

Good luck!

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