slack2html

gistfile1.txt

<?
/////////////////////
// slack2html
// by @levelsio
/////////////////////
//
/////////////////////
// WHAT DOES THIS DO?
/////////////////////
//
// Slack lets you export the chat logs (back to the first messages!), even if
// you are a free user (and have a 10,000 user limit)
//
// This is pretty useful for big chat groups (like mine, #nomads), where you
// do wanna see the logs, but can't see them within Slack
//
// Problem is that Slack exports it as JSON files, which is a bit unusable,
// so this script makes it into actual HTML files that look like Slack chats
//
///////////////////
// INSTRUCTIONS
///////////////////
//
// Run this script inside the directory of an extracted (!) Slack export zip
// e.g. "/tmp/#nomads Slack export Aug 25 2015" like this:
// MacBook-Pro:#nomads Slack export Aug 25 2015 mbp$ php slack2html.php
//
// It will then make two dirs:
// 	/slack2html/json
// 	/slack2html/html
//
// In the JSON dir it will put each channels chat log combined from all the
// daily logs that Slack outputs (e.g. /channel/2014-11-26.json)
//
// In the HTML dir it will generate HTML files with Slack's typical styling.
// It will also create an index.html that shows all channels
// 
///////////////////
// FEEDBACK
///////////////////
//
// Let me know any bugs by tweeting me @levelsio
//
// Hope this helps!
// 
// Pieter @levelsio
//
/////////////////////

    ini_set('memory_limit', '1024M');
	date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
	mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
	error_reporting(E_ERROR);

	// <config>
		$stylesheet="
			* {
				font-family:sans-serif;
			}
			body {
				text-align:center;
				padding:1em;
			}
			.messages {
				width:100%;
				max-width:700px;
				text-align:left;
				display:inline-block;
			}
			.messages img {
				background-color:rgb(248,244,240);
				width:36px;
				height:36px;
				border-radius:0.2em;
				display:inline-block;
				vertical-align:top;
				margin-right:0.65em;
			}
			.messages .time {
				display:inline-block;
				color:rgb(200,200,200);
				margin-left:0.5em;
			}
			.messages .username {
				display:inline-block;
				font-weight:600;
				line-height:1;
			}
			.messages .message {
				display:inline-block;
				vertical-align:top;
				line-height:1;
				width:calc(100% - 3em);
			}
			.messages .message .msg {
				line-height:1.5;
			}
		";
	// </config>

    // <compile daily logs into single channel logs>
		$files=scandir(__DIR__);
		$baseDir=__DIR__.'/../slack2html';
		$jsonDir=$baseDir.'/'.'json';
		if(!is_dir($baseDir)) mkdir($baseDir);
		if(!is_dir($jsonDir)) mkdir($jsonDir);

		foreach($files as $channel) {
			if($channel=='.' || $channel=='..') continue;
			if(is_dir($channel)) {
				$channelJsonFile=$jsonDir.'/'.$channel.'.json';
				if(file_exists($channelJsonFile)) {
					echo "JSON already exists ".$channelJsonFile."\n";
					continue;
				}

				unset($chats);
				$chats=array();

				echo '====='."\n";
				echo 'Combining JSON files for #'.$channel."\n";
				echo '====='."\n";

				$dates=scandir(__DIR__.'/'.$channel);
				foreach($dates as $date) {
					if(!is_dir($date)) {
						echo '.';
						$messages=json_decode(file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/'.$channel.'/'.$date),true);
						if(empty($messages)) continue;
						foreach($messages as $message) {
							array_push($chats,$message);
						}
					}
				}
				echo "\n";

				file_put_contents($channelJsonFile,json_encode($chats));
				echo number_format(count($chats)).' messages exported to '.$channelJsonFile."\n";
			}
		}
    // </compile daily logs into single channel logs>

	// <load users file>
		$users=json_decode(file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/'.'users.json'),true);
		$usersById=array();
		foreach($users as $user) {
			$usersById[$user['id']]=$user;
		}
	// </load users file>

	// <load channels file>
		$channels=json_decode(file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/'.'channels.json'),true);
		$channelsById=array();
		foreach($channels as $channel) {
			$channelsById[$channel['id']]=$channel;
		}
	// </load channels file>

	// <generate html from channel logs>
		$htmlDir=$baseDir.'/'.'html';
		if(!is_dir($htmlDir)) mkdir($htmlDir);
		$channels=scandir($jsonDir);
		$channelNames=array();
		$mostRecentChannelTimestamps=array();
		foreach($channels as $channel) {
			if($channel=='.' || $channel=='..') continue;
			if(is_dir($channel)) continue;

			$mostRecentChannelTimestamp=0;
			if($message['ts']>$mostRecentChannelTimestamp) {
				$mostRecentChannelTimestamp=$message['ts'];
			}
			$array=explode('.json',$channel);
			$channelName=$array[0];
			
			$channelHtmlFile=$htmlDir.'/'.$channelName.'.html';
			if(file_exists($channelHtmlFile)) {
				echo "HTML already exists ".$channelJsonFile."\n";
				continue;
			}

			array_push($channelNames,$channelName);
			echo '====='."\n";
			echo 'Generating HTML for #'.$channelName."\n";
			echo '====='."\n";
			$messages=json_decode(file_get_contents($jsonDir.'/'.$channel),true);
			if(empty($messages)) continue;
			$htmlMessages='<html><body><style>'.$stylesheet.'</style><div class="messages">';
			foreach($messages as $message) {
				if(empty($message)) continue;
				if(empty($message['text'])) continue;
				echo '.';
				
				// change <@U38A3DE9> into levelsio
				if(stripos($message['text'],'<@')!==false) {
					$usersInMessage=explode('<@',$message['text']);
					foreach($usersInMessage as $userInMessage) {
						$array=explode('>',$userInMessage);
						$userHandleInBrackets=$array[0];
						$array=explode('|',$array[0]);
						$userInMessage=$array[0];
						$username=$array[1];
						if(empty($username)) {
							$username=$usersById[$userInMessage]['name'];
						}
						$message['text']=str_replace('<@'.$userHandleInBrackets.'>','@'.$username,$message['text']);
					}
				}

				// change <#U38A3DE9> into #_chiang-mai
				if(stripos($message['text'],'<#')!==false) {
					$channelsInMessage=explode('<#',$message['text']);
					foreach($channelsInMessage as $channelInMessage) {
						$array=explode('>',$channelInMessage);
						$channelHandleInBrackets=$array[0];
						$array=explode('|',$array[0]);
						$channelInMessage=$array[0];
						$channelNameInMessage=$array[1];
						if(empty($username)) {
							$channelNameInMessage=$channelsById[$channelInMessage]['name'];
						}
						if(!empty($username)) {
							$message['text']=str_replace('<#'.$channelHandleInBrackets.'>','#'.$channelNameInMessage,$message['text']);
						}
					}
				}
				// change <http://url> into link
				if(stripos($message['text'],'<http')!==false) {
					$linksInMessage=explode('<http',$message['text']);
					foreach($linksInMessage as $linkInMessage) {
						$array=explode('>',$linkInMessage);
						$linkTotalInBrackets=$array[0];
						$array=explode('|',$array[0]);
						$linkInMessage=$array[0];
						$message['text']=str_replace('<http'.$linkTotalInBrackets.'>','<a href="http'.$linkInMessage.'">http'.$linkInMessage.'</a>',$message['text']);
					}
				}

				// change @levelsio has joined the channel into
				// @levelsio\n has joined #channel
				if(stripos($message['text'],'has joined the channel')!==false) {
					$message['text']=str_replace('the channel','#'.$channelName,$message['text']);
					$message['text']=str_replace('@'.$usersById[$message['user']]['name'].' ','',$message['text']);
				}

				$array=explode('.',$message['ts']);
				$time=$array[0];

				$message['text']=utf8_decode($message['text']);
				
				$htmlMessage='';
				$htmlMessage.='<div><img src="'.$usersById[$message['user']]['profile']['image_72'].'" /><div class="message"><div class="username">'.$usersById[$message['user']]['name'].'</div><div class="time">'.date('Y-m-d H:i',$message['ts']).'</div><div class="msg">'.$message['text']."</div></div></div><br/>\n";
				$htmlMessages.=$htmlMessage;
			}

			$htmlMessages.='</div></body></html>';
			file_put_contents($channelHtmlFile,$htmlMessages);
			$mostRecentChannelTimestamps[$channelName]=$mostRecentChannelTimestamp;
			echo "\n";
		}
		asort($mostRecentChannelTimestamps);
		$mostRecentChannelTimestamps=array_reverse($mostRecentChannelTimestamps);
	// </generate html from channel logs>

	// <make index html>
		$html='<html><body><style>'.$stylesheet.'</style><div class="messages">';
		foreach($mostRecentChannelTimestamps as $channel => $timestamp) {
			$html.='<a href="./'.$channel.'.html">#'.$channel.'</a> '.date('Y-m-d H:i',$timestamp).'<br/>'."\n";
		}
		$html.='</div></body></html>';
		file_put_contents($htmlDir.'/index.html',$html);
	// </make index html>

?>

I used the slack-export which worked great but slack-export-viewer keeps giving me these errors:

MacBook-Pro-17:slack-export-master davis$ slack-export-viewer -p 80 -I 192.168.x.x --debug -z test-export.zip.zip
WARNING: DEBUG MODE IS ENABLED!
test-export.zip.zip extracting to /var/folders/p1/p83kf_2n3l37p7yxgmn3113m0000gn/T/_slackviewer/4d730203a1403212f1458d8709540e73a056eec3...
test-export.zip.zip extracted to /var/folders/p1/p83kf_2n3l37p7yxgmn3113m0000gn/T/_slackviewer/4d730203a1403212f1458d8709540e73a056eec3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/slack-export-viewer", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/slackviewer/main.py", line 61, in main
configure_app(app, archive, channels, no_sidebar, no_external_references, debug)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/slackviewer/main.py", line 25, in configure_app
top.groups = reader.compile_groups()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/slackviewer/reader.py", line 42, in compile_groups
return self._create_messages(group_names, group_data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/slackviewer/reader.py", line 176, in _create_messages
chats = self._build_threads(chats)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/slackviewer/reader.py", line 199, in _build_threads
for reply in message._message['replies']:
KeyError: 'replies'

I keep getting same KeyError: 'replies'

I made a PowerShell version:
https://github.com/danielmbond/convert-slack-exports-to-html/tree/master

Here's a challenge - get the PHP script to include bot messages as well. The idea being to have a readable account of alerts dumped into a channel by a bot along with all user posts in response. Would love to see this.

Thank you for the instructions! May somebody please share an example of how the HTML file looks like after the conversion?

The script worked for me on MacOS once I changed the first line to <?php, thought I might highlight that so it can be patched in.

All I get in the HTML folder after running php slack2html.php is this HTML:

<style> * { font-family:sans-serif; } body { text-align:center; padding:1em; } .messages { width:100%; max-width:700px; text-align:left; display:inline-block; } .messages img { background-color:rgb(248,244,240); width:36px; height:36px; border-radius:0.2em; display:inline-block; vertical-align:top; margin-right:0.65em; } .messages .time { display:inline-block; color:rgb(200,200,200); margin-left:0.5em; } .messages .username { display:inline-block; font-weight:600; line-height:1; } .messages .message { display:inline-block; vertical-align:top; line-height:1; width:calc(100% - 3em); } .messages .message .msg { line-height:1.5; } </style>