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Delete Slack files older than 30 days. Rewrite of https://gist.github.com/jamescmartinez/909401b19c0f779fc9c1
import requests
import time
import json
token = ''
#Delete files older than this:
ts_to = int(time.time()) - 30 * 24 * 60 * 60
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 json.loads(response.text)['files']
def delete_files(file_ids):
count = 0
num_files = len(file_ids)
for file_id in file_ids:
count = count + 1
params = {
'token': token
,'file': file_id
}
uri = 'https://slack.com/api/files.delete'
response = requests.get(uri, params=params)
print count, "of", num_files, "-", file_id, json.loads(response.text)['ok']
files = list_files()
file_ids = [f['id'] for f in files]
delete_files(file_ids)
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None of the scripts listed here works anymore for me. Something changed @slack?

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