clean-my-slack

CLI tool to easily batch delete messages from your Slack channels.

Installation

yarn global add clean-my-slack

or:

npm i -g clean-my-slack

Configuration

Create a token for your workspace to use Slack API

• Go to https://api.slack.com/apps
• Create a new app on the desired workspace (you must be logged in to this workspace)
• In your app settings, go to "OAuth & Permissions"
• In the "Scopes" tab, add the channel:read, group:read, chat:write:users scopes and apply changes
• On the top, click on "Install App to workspace", then "Authorize" the app when prompting
• Finally, copy your previously generated token 🙂

Register the workspace in the CLI

Add your workspace to your CLI by running:

cmsk workspace:add -n <name of the workspace> -t <token>

The name provided with -n option could be different of the real Slack workspace name. It's only for identification purpose at CLI side

Usage

When one of your Slack channel becomes dirty, just run the following:

cmsk clean -w <workspace> -c <channel>

This will delete all messages from the channel, starting from the last.

Due to Slack API's throttle rate, the CLI could pause if you delete a lot of messages at once