Ability to exclude channels or types of channel

[damccull]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently when exporting a workspace, it includes all the DMs as the user who logged in. I would like to be able to easily choose only non-DM channels.

Describe the solution you'd like There should either be an option to choose which channels to exclude, taking all others by default, or an option to choose only channels of a particular type or types. i.e. selecting 'only public channels', or 'only public and private channels', etc.

Describe alternatives you've considered Currently I slackdump list channels, remove all the extra info that isn't an ID starting with C, and copy/paste the IDs into the wizard or CLI archive command.

Additional context

[rusq]

You can use the combination of:

$ slackdump list channels -b | grep -v 'D.*' > non-dms.txt
$ slackdump archive @non-dms.txt

[rusq]

But you are right, it would be much easier to choose which type of channel you want to archive, I'll leave this open till this is implemented.

[damccull]

Thanks. The command you gave will work for me in the interim. I appreciate the response.

[dannyadair]

There are also "mpdm-" when you had a chat with a couple of other people

mpdm-eric--danny.adair--ben-1