Archive starred messages from a slack channel

[tathagata]

As a slack user In order to save messages that are perceived higher value (indicated by votes/reaction etc.) I would like them to be persisted to a storage like s3.

followup story:

A static html web page that renders the stored messages.

Acceptance test cases

Given an slack channel when busybeaver-archiver-job runs on its daily schedule then the contents of valuable messages are persisted to a storage

Spike:

• [ ] Define valuable
• [ ] Are threads useful
• [ ] Some users might not be comfortable with this (despite the fact that this is on an open forum). Do we need to address that
• [ ] Storage - any other option than s3? I'd guess this would be a json response from slack api, and to begin with it could just keep appending to a single file that gets rendered with html/css from a static page. Thinking mvp, and not about sharding ;)

[alysivji]

I do not like the idea of constantly listening to all Slack conversations. I would prefer a batch process where we collect old messages every x timedelta

[tathagata]

sorry if it was not clear - that is definitely what I meant, scheduled job that runs on a particular frequency.

[alysivji]

We can set up a slack-event-subscription for star_added and star_removed and throw that into a database somewhere to be read later.

https://api.slack.com/events-api

[manesioz]

Any updates on this?

[alysivji]

@manesioz Would love some help getting this feature into Busy Beaver!

[manesioz]

@alysivji I'd love to help out! I'll read more about your architecture and open up a PR once I make some head-way, thanks.

[alysivji]

Awesome! Ping me if you need a hand getting started!