A script to purge slack files

slack_purge.py

# vim: fileencoding=utf-8 tw=100 expandtab ts=4 sw=4 :

import requests
import time
import os

token = os.getenv('SLACK_TOKEN')

# Delete files older than this:
ts_to = int(time.time()) - (3600 * 24 * 30)


def list_files():
    params = {
        'token': token,
        'ts_to': ts_to,
        'count': 1000,
    }
    uri = 'https://slack.com/api/files.list'
    response = requests.get(uri, params=params)
    return response.json()['files']


def delete_files(file_ids):
    num_files = len(file_ids)
    for count, file_id in enumerate(file_ids, start=1):
        params = {
            'token': token,
            'file': file_id,
        }
        uri = 'https://slack.com/api/files.delete'
        response = requests.get(uri, params=params)
        output = '{} of {} - {}'.format(
            count,
            num_files,
            response.json()['ok'],
        )
        print(output)


def main():
    if not token:
        print('You must provide a token in the SLACK_TOKEN environment variable.')

    files = list_files()
    file_ids = [f['id'] for f in files]
    delete_files(file_ids)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()