Parsing json output

[fitzyjoe]

Thanks @rusq. Dumping worked very well. Do you have a recommendation for parsing the json output? I am using "jq" but it's obviously less useful than working in a UI like Slack. Thx.

[rusq]

Hey @fitzyjoe , thanks for your donation!

jq is a great tool, but sometimes tedious to use. I think the easiest option would be to use python, I added an example to the repository:
https://github.com/rusq/slackdump/blob/master/examples/python/print_messages.py

it requires that sample.json is present - which is a message dump from the slack (it's also in samples directory, if you need one)

[fitzyjoe]

Thanks, @rusq. I'll have a look at python. I saw your pull request. I'll contribute a more complicated example to the jq example that you wrote.

[rusq]

Thank you for the contribution! I will merge shortly :)

[rusq]

With jq, solution would be something like that (i haven't studied the man page enough to figure out how to get the thread replies conditionally)

#!/bin/sh

SAMPLE=../sample.json

cat "${SAMPLE}" | jq '.messages[]|.user +": "+.text' | tr -d '"'

[jingxuanlim]

Hi guys! Obviously very great work @rusq for building this utility. This was very helpful for me.

I thought I ask my question here instead of starting a new thread. Let me know if I should do otherwise.

I also had a question about parsing the json output and the reference to the example code helped me greatly.

Is there a way of automatically downloading attached files (such as images, videos and text files) so that they also display nicely?

I also wonder if there is an option, since attachments are downloaded into a folder, to have links to those files instead of to the original html link?