🔒On Slack, private channels can be really bad. Often in companies, private channels should be public. Slack allow to convert a public channel to a private channel, but not the opposite. Such a shame. However, it can be done easily with their Import API.
This NodeJS module will extract the content of a private channel you have access to, and will generate an archive ready to be imported to Slack. And there you go, here is your new public channel unlocked, with your history 🔓
- Checkout this repository
yarn install
node index.js TOKEN list-of-chans-separated-by-a-space
You will have a ready to import zip!