delete old slack files

clear-old-slack.py

import requests
import json
import calendar
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

#token from https://api.slack.com/web
_token = "YOUR TOKEN HERE" 
_domain = "YOUR SUB DOMAIN HERE"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    while 1:
        files_list_url = 'https://slack.com/api/files.list'
        date = str(calendar.timegm((datetime.now() + timedelta(-30))
            .utctimetuple()))
        data = {"token": _token, "ts_to": date}
        response = requests.post(files_list_url, data = data)
        if len(response.json()["files"]) == 0:
            break
        for f in response.json()["files"]:
            print "Deleting file " + f["name"] + "..."
            timestamp = str(calendar.timegm(datetime.now().utctimetuple()))
            delete_url = "https://" + _domain + ".slack.com/api/files.delete?t=" + timestamp
            requests.post(delete_url, data = {
                "token": _token, 
                "file": f["id"], 
                "set_active": "true", 
                "_attempts": "1"})
    print "DONE!"

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I'll update the post to point to this Gist.

Greetings! I have also implemented this code in my workplace. It is great help! I have found an inconvenience with file name encoding issues that cause the script to stop on some files and I am forced to look said files up and manually delete them.

An example filename that gave me such issue is this:
kia_quiz___kia_puerto_rico_png_1_591\ xd71_603_pixels.png

That is the text as-is found in the "name" key of the json response. There were others, but this one is the one that I bothered to print out and capture the entire response.json()['files'].

I have very little python experience, Next to none. So if you or anyone reading into this know something I can do to iron out these encoding issues, it would be a great help.

Thanks in advance for any help on this, and thanks for making this bit of awesome goodnes available to the public.

UPDATE:
Greetings, I ended up modifying this gist to deal with utf-8 encoding. This is because I had filenames that came with special characters in the name, things like: á ñ ó and so on...

I'm also importing these:

import sys
import codecs

After imports I add:

sys.stdout=codecs.getwriter("utf-8")(sys.stdout, 'strict')

Then in the line that prints out: print "Deleting file " + f["name"] + "..." add .decode('utf-8') at the end.

That took care of the encoding issues I was having.

Also, after reading up on python syntax, I was able to modify this gist into one that would loop over a list of access tokens in order to delete files from more than one user.

Ended up looking like this: https://gist.github.com/JLMorales/53fcf1f483f357e81d1f

I'd seen this code posted elsewhere, not in the gist, so I started reworking it without realizing I could do a pull request ... then searched for a line in the code again and found this gist.

Anyway, a partial reworking with utf-8 handling, improved messaging and multiple accounts is posted here:
https://github.com/PalmBeachPost/SlackPruner

Thanks! I hope this is OK. If you'd rather fold some of this back into the gist or something, please let me know.

Im getting an error running this

File "slack2.py", line 20
print "Deleting file " + f["name"] + "..."
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

@theapplepastor it looks like you're using python 3, so print is a function. As such, you'll need to use print(stuff) rather than print stuff.

Thanks for this! I just created a similar script using argparse rather than hard coding _token hope this is helpful to people https://gitlab.com/tomleo/SlackFileCleanup/

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