Open Slack files in your browser
Everything a Slack workspace's export holds, read as the channels it was. Open the ZIP right here and read each conversation. Nothing leaves your device.
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What you'll see
Your chat opens as its conversation, each message in a bubble in its sender's color, with the days, replies, reactions and calls, and the photos and voice notes the export holds.
- Every conversation • Each person in a color of their own
- Search • Every match counted, and a date jumps to its day
- Stats • Who wrote how much, by hour, weekday and month
- Export • Save as PDF, CSV or text
About Slack
A Slack workspace's owners and admins can export its messages from the workspace's settings, as a ZIP: users.json and channels.json at the top, and a folder for each conversation with a JSON file for each day. Every plan exports public channels, and Business+ and Enterprise Grid owners can export private channels and direct messages too.
Teams export a workspace when they move to another tool, close it or must keep its records. Slack can import an export into another workspace, but no app shows one, and its days are hundreds of small JSON files.
Filepeek reads the ZIP into its channels and conversations, each message under its author, with threads, reactions, edits and mentions by name. Search counts every match, a date jumps to its day, Stats shows who wrote how much and when, and Export saves a conversation as PDF, CSV or text. Files stay on Slack's servers, so the export only names them.
Slack workspace export
.zip
Format
- MIME type
- application/zip
- Made by
- Slack
Inside the file
- Layout
- A folder a channel, a JSON a day
- People
- In users.json, by their IDs
- Files
- Named, kept on Slack's servers
- Written by
- Slack's workspace export
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens Slack exports in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, however big the workspace. On their own, browsers only download the ZIP.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open Slack
- WindowsNo app opens it • Slack only imports it into a workspace
- MacNo app opens it • Slack only imports it into a workspace
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I export a Slack workspace?
An owner or admin opens the workspace's settings, then Import & Export Data and Export, and Slack emails a link to the ZIP once it's made.
Why are there no files or pictures?
Slack keeps a workspace's files on its servers and the export only links to them, so each shows by its name and size.
Can I read direct messages?
When the export holds them. An export of public channels has only those, and an owner's full export adds private channels and direct messages.