Slack is widely used by teams and organizations as a robust communication tool. Its key capability is the ability to archive conversations, providing a useful reference for the future. However, are you wondering how to save these conversations for offline access? This blog will assist you in learning how to download conversations from Slack.
Step 1: Check Your Slack Plan
One important thing to note is that the ability to download all data from your workspace, including all messages and links within messages, is limited to certain Slack plans. Workspace Owners and Admins can download all data from their workspace in Slack’s standard, plus, and enterprise grid plans.
Step 2: Requesting for the Data
If you are a Workspace Owner or Admin and have one of the above-mentioned plans, you can request to download all your workspace’s data, including all messages. Even if some messages have been deleted, they will be included in this download. To do this, follow these steps:
- Click on your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration, then Workspace settings.
- Scroll down to the Data and permissions section and select Import/Export Data.
- Click on Export.
- Select What to export.
- Finally, click on Start Export.
Slack will then prepare your workspace’s data for download. Depending on the size of your workspace and the amount of data, this may take some time.
Step 3: Downloading Your Data
Once your data is ready for download, Slack will notify the person who requested the export. To download this file, follow these steps:
- Click on your workspace name in the top left.
- Select Settings & administration, then Workspace settings.
- Scroll down to the Data and permissions section and select Import/Export Data.
- Click on Ready for download.
- Finally, click on Download.
Now you have your whole Slack workspace’s data, including all your conversations, available for offline use.
Keep in mind, if you are not a Workspace Owner or Admin or if you don’t have one of Slack’s paid plans, you can still manually save important messages or conversations. You can copy the text from specific messages and paste it into your own offline document.
Hopefully, this blog has helped you understand how to download conversations from Slack. Whether you need these conversations for record-keeping, for offline use, or for any other reason, now you know how to do it.
