How to Move Your Slack Archive to Discord

Download Slackord2. Before you open it, although, you’ll want to arrange a Discord bot—right here’s a hyperlink to get began. Click New Application, naming it no matter you need. Next, click on the URL Generator button underneath OAuth2 within the left sidebar. Under Scope click on Bot. The Bot permissions area will present up after you do that; click on Administrator there. Next, scroll down and replica 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’d like, then ensure that Public Bot and Requires OAuth2 Code Grant are each turned off and that “Message content intent” is turned on. You can be requested if you’d like 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.

Finally, head to the URL you copied earlier. You can be requested which Discord server you need to add the bot to—select the server you plan to migrate Slack posts over to.

Migrate Your Slack Archive

Now you possibly can open Slackord2 in your pc. You can be requested to your Bot Token—paste it. If every little thing’s working, you ought to be instructed that “Bot connection is now enabled,” however don’t join but. 

Instead click on File > Import JSON Folder. Browse to the Slack archive you downloaded earlier and open the folder for the channel you need to migrate. The parsing course of could take some time, relying on how giant the archive is. If every little thing is working accurately, you must see outdated messages scrolling earlier than your eyes. While it’s parsing, head to Discord and make a brand new textual content channel with the identical identify.

When parsing is finished on Slackord, click on Settings > Bot Connection > Connect. This will join—you possibly can inform it’s working if the bot you created it proven as on-line in Discord. Now you possibly can sort “/slackord” within the Discord channel you need to import your channel’s archives to. If every little thing is about 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 need to migrate. It will take some time, granted, and the outcomes aren’t good. Posts are all in plaintext, and also you received’t see the avatar subsequent to them. Still, it’s a searchable archive of all of your outdated Slack posts. Now you simply want to let your mates know that it’s time to swap.