How to Move Your Slack Archive to Discord Leave a comment

Download Slackord2. Earlier than you open it, although, you’ll have to arrange a Discord bot—here’s a link to get began. Click on New Utility, naming it no matter you need. Subsequent, click on the URL Generator button below OAuth2 within the left sidebar. Beneath Scope click on Bot. The Bot permissions discipline will present up after you do that; click on Administrator there. Subsequent, scroll down and duplicate the Generated URL on the backside of the display screen—you’ll want it later.

Now head to the Bot part within the sidebar. Give the bot a customized username and icon, if you would like, then be sure that Public Bot and Requires OAuth2 Code Grant are each turned off and that “Message content material intent” is turned on. You may be requested if you wish to save your modifications—click on Save. Now scroll to the highest of the web page and click on the Reset Token button. Copy the token.

Lastly, head to the URL you copied earlier. You may be requested which Discord server you wish to add the bot to—select the server you plan emigrate Slack posts over to.

Migrate Your Slack Archive

Now you may open Slackord2 in your pc. You may be requested in your Bot Token—paste it. If all the pieces’s working, you ought to be advised that “Bot connection is now enabled,” however don’t join but. 

As an alternative click on File > Import JSON Folder. Browse to the Slack archive you downloaded earlier and open the folder for the channel you wish to migrate. The parsing course of could take some time, relying on how massive the archive is. If all the pieces is working accurately, you must see outdated messages scrolling earlier than your eyes. Whereas it’s parsing, head to Discord and make a brand new textual content channel with the identical identify.

When parsing is completed on Slackord, click on Settings > Bot Connection > Join. This may join—you may inform it’s working if the bot you created it proven as on-line in Discord. Now you may kind “/slackord” within the Discord channel you wish to import your channel’s archives to. If all the pieces is ready up accurately, the messages will slowly begin to present up.

Repeat this course of—making a clean channel, opening the JSON folder, and working /slackord—for each channel you wish to migrate. It should take some time, granted, and the outcomes aren’t excellent. Posts are all in plaintext, and also you gained’t see the avatar subsequent to them. Nonetheless, it’s a searchable archive of all of your outdated Slack posts. Now you simply have to let your pals know that it’s time to change.