Slack-File-Cleaner 🛁

Frees up space by mass-deleting old, unpinned files in Slack channels and DM's.

Usage

Download the slack_delete.py file and cd into it's directory.

python3 slack_delete.py --token <your-slack-token>

Replace <your-slack-token> with the API token found here.

[*] Fetching file list..
    Filename2.jpg is pinned to #general.
    Filename1.pdf is pinned to a private direct message.
    3 unpinned files.
  
[*] Delete the unpinned files? (y/n): y

Confirm if you want to delete the unpinned files by typing y or n.

[*] Deleting files older than 30 days ...
    1 of 3 - F8R1W9P7S True
    2 of 3 - F9R1X8P7S True
    3 of 3 - F7R1W9P7Z True

[*] Done

The sript will show you each file_id and whether or not the file could be deleted.

Optional Flags

Set the script to delete files older than <number-of-days> days.
The default is to delete unpinned files over 30 days old.

--days <number-of-days>

Set the script to delete a maximum of <max-number-of-files> at one time.
The default is to delete a maximum of 1000 files.

--count <max-number-of-files>

Credits: Forked from this gist by jamescmartinez.