Script to export helpscout data as json

helpscout-export.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'helpscout'
require 'fileutils'
require 'json'

api_key = ARGV[0]
helpscout = HelpScout::Client.new(api_key)

module InstanceVariablesToJson
  def to_json(*a)
    Hash[instance_variables.map { |name| [name.to_s[1..-1], instance_variable_get(name)] }].to_json(*a)
  end
end

class Module
  def all_the_modules
    [self] + constants.map { |const| const_get(const) }
                 .select { |const| const.is_a? Module }
                 .reject { |const| const.included_modules.include? HTTParty }
                 .flat_map { |const| const.all_the_modules }
  end
end

HelpScout.all_the_modules.select { |c| c.is_a? Class }.each do |c|
  c.include InstanceVariablesToJson
end

helpscout.mailboxes.each do |box|
  FileUtils.mkdir(box.name) unless File.exists?(box.name)
  puts "Fetching #{helpscout.conversation_count(box.id, 'all', nil)} conversations for #{box.name}"
  helpscout.conversations(box.id, "all", nil).each do |c|
    next if File.exists?(path = "#{box.name}/#{c.id}.json")
    File.open(path, "w") { |f| f.puts helpscout.conversation(c.id).to_json; putc "."; sleep 0.4 }
  end
end