slack-cleaner wrapper to automate slack message clean up.

slack-cleaner.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Automated cleanup of slack messages.
# Must have slack-cleaner already installed.
# Simply replace your SLACK_TOKEN string with your legacy webapi token.
# Set the number of days you wish to retain, and add this to a cron job to run at 
# the desired interval.


SLACK_TOKEN=My-Slack-Legacy-WebToken
DAYS=-30
BEFORE=$(date -v${DAYS}d +%Y%m%d)

echo "Cleaning up channels"
slack-cleaner --rate 1 --token $SLACK_TOKEN  --message --channel ".*" --regex  --bot  --before $BEFORE  --perform
slack-cleaner --rate 1 --token $SLACK_TOKEN  --message --channel ".*" --regex  --user "*"  --before $BEFORE  --perform
slack-cleaner --rate 1 --token $SLACK_TOKEN  --file --channel ".*" --regex --before $BEFORE  --perform

echo "Cleaning up Direct Messages (DM's)"
slack-cleaner --rate 1 --token $SLACK_TOKEN  --message --direct ".*" --regex  --bot  --before $BEFORE  --perform
slack-cleaner --rate 1 --token $SLACK_TOKEN  --message --direct ".*" --regex  --user "*"  --before $BEFORE  --perform
slack-cleaner --rate 1 --token $SLACK_TOKEN  --file --direct ".*" --regex  --before $BEFORE  --perform