hfaran / slack-export-viewer

A Slack Export archive viewer that allows you to easily view and share your Slack team's export
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/slack-export-viewer
MIT License
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Offline/local retrieval of data? #164

Open grojguy opened 1 year ago

grojguy commented 1 year ago

This is a very handy tool! One improvement I would love to see is the ability to cache/save data locally, so it doesn't depend on loading from Slack. If the Slack account goes away, or reduced from paid to free, this could be a problem and data may be lost.

You might be able to leverage the output of this project (https://github.com/grundleborg/slack-advanced-exporter) which downloads attachments and adds them to the export archive in a '__uploads' folder. Maybe it could be as simple as changing the location your tool loads attachments from, instead of the 'https://files.slack.com...' resources.

Thanks for all your hard work on this tool!