Slack Tracker

Watch changes to Slack Users.

Attempt to display data in an interesting manner.

Scripts

• track.py - pull all users, separate between bots and humans, and git commit in order to make tracking changes easier

• attrition.py - Plot departures per week based on deleted human users

Cron

Run once a day at midnight

0 0 * * *    /home/USER/dev/slack/track/run.sh

Requires setting secrets with

SLACK_TOKEN="YOUR-SLACK-TOKEN"

Notes

Use pyenv and python 3.11.0 for convenience.

pyenv virtualenv 3.11.0 slacktrack
pip install slack_sdk
pip install GitPython

pip install pandas
pip install matplotlib
pip install PyQt5

"users:read" permission scope is required

Can potentially use

'updated': 1633752686,

To determine date of departure for people

'deleted': True,

Running

export SLACK_TOKEN=""
python track.py

The token must have "users:read" permission scope