SlackLogViewer

This is an application to view json files exported from your Slack workspace with Slack-like GUI.
By using this, you can:

• browse any messages that cannot be shown in your workspaces because of the limit of the free plan.
• display threads and reactions.
• search for them by some words or regular expression.
• view or download files, if they are not hidden by the storage limit.

Building

For Windows and macOS, you can download a prebuilt binary from Releases.

If necessary, you can build SlackLogViewer with CMake.
This application is written in C++17 and can be compiled with:

• Visual Studio 2019 or later
• GCC 9 or later

Make sure you have installed the following dependencies.

• Qt5 with QtWebEngine (5.14 or later)
• zlib
• QuaZIP
• TBB (for GCC)

Usage

On Windows, this application requires Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019.

1. Export a zip file from your Slack workspace.
2. Download prebuilt binary from Releases and unzip into any folder.
3. Execute the SlackLogViewer.
4. Click "Open" from the menu button in the top left corner of the window, and select the zip file or the folder of exported json files.

Acknowledgments

This application depends on the following third-party libraries and tools.

• Qt Copyright (C) 2020 The Qt Company Ltd.
• emojicpp Copyright (c) 2018 Shalitha Suranga
• CMakeHelpers Copyright (C) 2015 halex2005
• QuaZip Copyright (C) 2005-2020 Sergey A. Tachenov and contributors
• zlib Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler